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'In 1982, a car overturns on a remote West Australian road. Nobody is hurt, but the impact is felt for decades.
'Nicole and Samantha Cooper both remember the summer day when their mother, Tina, lost control of their car – but not in quite the same way. It is only after Tina’s death, almost four decades later, that the sisters are forced to reckon with the repercussions of the crash. Nicole, after years of aimless drifting, has finally found love, and yet can’t quite commit. And Samantha is hiding something that might just tear apart the life she’s worked so hard to build for herself.
'The Spill explores the cycles of love, loss and regret that can follow a family through the years – moments of joy, things left unsaid, and things misremembered. Above all, it is a deeply moving portrait of two sisters falling apart and finding a way to fit back together.'
Source: publisher's blurb
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Other Formats
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Imbi Neeme : The Spill
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11-17 July 2020;
— Review of The Spill 2020 single work novel'Imbi Neeme’s The Spill is an engaging novel set in Western Australia that meditates upon the connections between memory, trauma and the imagination. Sweeping across four decades, the novel focuses on the lives of two sisters, Nicole and Samantha: their differing relationships with their estranged parents, the secrets they keep and their conflicting memories in the wake of a childhood car accident. As they try to reconcile their views of the past, particularly their experiences of their mother’s alcoholism and death, the sisters grapple with their own failings, and their ways of mourning and memorialisation.' (Introduction)
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June in Fiction
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , June 2020;
— Review of The Fogging 2020 single work novel ; The Spill 2020 single work novel ; Almost a Mirror 2020 single work novel -
Books Roundup
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2020;
— Review of Smart Ovens for Lonely People 2020 selected work short story ; The Rain Heron 2020 single work novel ; The Spill 2020 single work novel ; Rise and Shine 2020 single work novel ; Sweatshop Women : Volume Two 2020 anthology poetry prose
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Books Roundup
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Kill Your Darlings [Online] , June 2020;
— Review of Smart Ovens for Lonely People 2020 selected work short story ; The Rain Heron 2020 single work novel ; The Spill 2020 single work novel ; Rise and Shine 2020 single work novel ; Sweatshop Women : Volume Two 2020 anthology poetry prose -
June in Fiction
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , June 2020;
— Review of The Fogging 2020 single work novel ; The Spill 2020 single work novel ; Almost a Mirror 2020 single work novel -
Imbi Neeme : The Spill
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 11-17 July 2020;
— Review of The Spill 2020 single work novel'Imbi Neeme’s The Spill is an engaging novel set in Western Australia that meditates upon the connections between memory, trauma and the imagination. Sweeping across four decades, the novel focuses on the lives of two sisters, Nicole and Samantha: their differing relationships with their estranged parents, the secrets they keep and their conflicting memories in the wake of a childhood car accident. As they try to reconcile their views of the past, particularly their experiences of their mother’s alcoholism and death, the sisters grapple with their own failings, and their ways of mourning and memorialisation.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2019 winner PRH Australia Literary Prize
