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ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- A writer mourns for her lost friend, another writer who was renowned and much loved and has died. Her friend suffered from deep and unshiftable depression in the last part of her life, and the narrator recalls their shared past and her attempts to lift her out of her dark places. It was a friendship that stretched back to their shared youth, their early years as mothers, and through the tribulations of the publishing and academic worlds. As the narrator meditates on loss and grief, life and guilt, the nature of their long friendship shifts in the kaliedoscope of her memory...
This is a profoundly touching and quiet novel that hovers on the edge of memoir, as it is based on Adelaide's long friendship with Gabrielle Carey. It is reminiscent of Helen Garner's The Spare Room in a way, but is a beautiful piece of writing in its own class, full of love and regrets and all the pain that comes from not being able to help a person who means so much to you. And then it is about acceptance and understanding and love, again. A gorgeous book... Lindy
Dr Debra Adelaide is the author or editor of eighteen books, including fiction, non-fiction and reference works. Her 2008 novel, The Household Guide to Dying, was published to acclaim in Australia and around the world, and was short- and long-listed for several literary awards, including the international Orange Prize (now the Women's Prize) for Fiction. Her most recent books include Zebra, which won the short story category in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards, and The Innocent Reader- Reflections on reading and writing. She taught creative writing for twenty years and is now an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. She lives and writes on Bidjigal Country in Sydney's inner west.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- A writer mourns for her lost friend, another writer who was renowned and much loved and has died. Her friend suffered from deep and unshiftable depression in the last part of her life, and the narrator recalls their shared past and her attempts to lift her out of her dark places. It was a friendship that stretched back to their shared youth, their early years as mothers, and through the tribulations of the publishing and academic worlds. As the narrator meditates on loss and grief, life and guilt, the nature of their long friendship shifts in the kaliedoscope of her memory...
This is a profoundly touching and quiet novel that hovers on the edge of memoir, as it is based on Adelaide's long friendship with Gabrielle Carey. It is reminiscent of Helen Garner's The Spare Room in a way, but is a beautiful piece of writing in its own class, full of love and regrets and all the pain that comes from not being able to help a person who means so much to you. And then it is about acceptance and understanding and love, again. A gorgeous book... Lindy
