Other People's Houses

Hilary McPhee

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MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
01 October 2019

Memoirs; Biography - Australian

In Other People's Houses publishing legend Hilary McPhee exchanges one hemisphere for another. Fleeing the aftermath of a failed marriage, she embarks on a writing project in the Middle East, for a member of the Hashemite royal family, a man she greatly respects. Here she finds herself faced with different kinds of exile, new kinds of banishment.

From apartments in Cortona and Amman and an attic in London, McPhee watches other women managing magnificently alone as she flounders through the mire of Extreme Loneliness.

Other People's Houses is a brutally honest memoir, funny, sad, full of insights into worlds to which she was given privileged access, and of the friendships which sustained her.

And ultimately, of course, this is the story of returning home, of picking up the pieces, and facing the music as her house and her life takes on new shapes.

By: Hilary McPhee
Imprint: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRES
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 232mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 314g
ISBN: 9780522875645
ISBN 10: 0522875645
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 01 October 2019
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Hilary McPhee is a writer and editor. She founded McPhee Gribble Publishers with Diana Gribble in 1975, was Chair of the Australia Council for the Arts 1994-97, and inaugural Vice-Chancellor's Fellow at Melbourne University until 2004. Her books include Other People's Words, Wordlines and Memoirs of a Young Bastard- The Diaries of Tim Burstall.

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