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Too Close To Home

Georgia Blain

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English
Vintage
02 May 2011
Shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferiss Award. Too Close To Home takes us right inside who we really are.

Shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferiss Award. Too Close To Home takes us right inside who we really are.

How tenuous the links are that build a life.

Freya writes uncomfortable domestic dramas. Her friends work in theatre and film, show in galleries, talk politics and are trying new ways of having children with friends. These are the people who are slowly gentrifying the next ring of inner-city suburbs while praising their diversity.

As the stultifying heat of summer descends, Shane, an Aboriginal man, moves up the road. He was once close to Matt, Freya's partner, and he not only brings with him a different approach to life, he also has news of a boy who might be Matt's son. Despite wanting to embrace all that Shane represents and the possibility of another child in their life, Freya and Matt stumble, failing each other and their beliefs.
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Imprint:   Vintage
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 233mm,  Width: 155mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   394g
ISBN:   9781864711776
ISBN 10:   1864711779
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Georgia Blain is the author of Closed for Winter, Candelo, The Blind Eye, Names for Nothingness, the young adult novel Darkwater, and Births, Deaths, Marriages.

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