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'Over one weekend in a small Tasmanian town, a transsexual mortician prepares three bodies for burial at a funeral home. As she carefully works on the Kremmer son, the Esterhazen girl and Mr Phillips, she reflects on her own unusual life and childhood - her father's obsession with taxidermy and other darker pursuits, her own induction into the arts of taxidermy, the death of her parents and her ultimate transformation from man to woman.
'Her sex change was a tentative step towards finding somebody to love her, and choosing a man came next. But when her plans to be with her chosen one are interrupted, she discovers just how far she will go to keep the hope of love alive.
'In a corrupt world where appearance is everything, what makes us open our hearts to others.'
Source:www.penguin.com.au/ (Sighted 15/10/10).
Notes
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Epigraph:
The grave's a fine and private place,
But none I think do there embrace.
'To his Coy Mistress' -Andrew Marvell
I shall but love thee better after death.
'How do I love thee?' -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2010 - January 2011 no. 327 2010; (p. 67)
— Review of Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel -
The Makeover Turns Macabre
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 December 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel -
Well Read
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 December 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Fall Girl 2010 single work novel ; Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 November 2010; (p. 34)
— Review of Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 90 no. 3 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , October vol. 90 no. 3 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 November 2010; (p. 34)
— Review of Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel -
Well Read
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 4 December 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Fall Girl 2010 single work novel ; Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel -
The Makeover Turns Macabre
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 December 2010; (p. 29)
— Review of Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel -
Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December 2010 - January 2011 no. 327 2010; (p. 67)
— Review of Somebody to Love 2010 single work novel
- Tasmania,
