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Love, Death & Other Scenes

Nova Weetman

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English
Queensland Univ. Press
03 April 2024
How do we become more after losing? Beloved Australian author Nova Weetman shares her heartfelt experiences with grief and loss while also celebrating the profound beauty of love and life.

Nova Weetman's unforgettable memoir reflects on experiences of love and loss from throughout her life- losing her beloved partner, playwright Aidan Fennessy, during the 2020 Covid lockdown; the death of her mother ten years earlier; her daughter turning eighteen and finishing school; and her own physical ageing. Using these events as a lens, Nova considers how various kinds of losses - and the complicated love they represent - change us and can become the catalysts for letting go.

This is a moving, honest account of farewelling a partner of twenty-five years, parenting teenagers through grief, buying property for the first time at the age of fifty, and learning to appreciate spending hours alone with only the household cat for company. Warm and wise - and often joyful - Love, Death & Other Scenes ultimately focuses on the living we do after losses and what we learn from them.

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Imprint:   Queensland Univ. Press
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 226mm,  Width: 152mm,  Spine: 23mm
Weight:   332g
ISBN:   9780702268434
ISBN 10:   0702268437
Pages:   280
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Nova Weetman is a widely published writer of fiction, nonfiction and screenplays. She has published sixteen novels for children about friendship, class, identity and belonging, and her books have been shortlisted for many awards and published internationally. Her recent essays on aspects of grief and loss have been published in The Guardian, The Age, and Island literary magazine, leading to her appearing on Radio National's Conversations - each time she talks about grief and loss, she is contacted by many strangers wanting to talk about their own experiences. Nova has also published short fiction in Island, Mslexia, Kill Your Darlings and Overland, and worked as a screenwriter for television and film.

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