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'Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.
'When Frances met Charlie at a party in Melbourne he was married with a young son.
'Now she and Charlie live in Sydney with her rescue dog Rod and an unshakeable sense that they have tipped the world on its axis. They are still getting their bearings - of each other and of their adopted city. Everything is alien, unfamiliar, exotic: haunting, even.
'Worlds of meaning spin out of perfectly chosen words in this rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story by Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning writer Michelle de Kretser.' (Publication summary)
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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Alexandra Watkins Interviews Michelle de Kretser on ‘Springtime’
Alexandra Watkins
(interviewer),
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , September no. 19 2016; -
Michelle de Kretser, Springtime
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 7 no. 2 2015;
— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel -
A Ghost Story
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 368 2015; (p. 57)
— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel -
Get Shorty
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-mail , 29 November 2014; (p. 10)
— Review of The Turning 2004 selected work short story ; Merciless Gods 2014 selected work short story ; Australia's Best Unknown Stories : And Tales You Thought You Knew 2014 anthology short story ; Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel 'Short stories have a long life ahead of them...' -
Bringing Ghost Stories Back to Life
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 November 2014; (p. 18)
— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel
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Michelle De Kretser : Springtime : A Ghost Story
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2014;
— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel -
Bringing Ghost Stories Back to Life
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 November 2014; (p. 18)
— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel -
Get Shorty
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: The Courier-mail , 29 November 2014; (p. 10)
— Review of The Turning 2004 selected work short story ; Merciless Gods 2014 selected work short story ; Australia's Best Unknown Stories : And Tales You Thought You Knew 2014 anthology short story ; Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel 'Short stories have a long life ahead of them...' -
A Ghost Story
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 368 2015; (p. 57)
— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel -
Michelle de Kretser, Springtime
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 7 no. 2 2015;
— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story 2014 single work novel -
Alexandra Watkins Interviews Michelle de Kretser on ‘Springtime’
Alexandra Watkins
(interviewer),
2016
single work
interview
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , September no. 19 2016;
- Melbourne, Victoria,
- Sydney, New South Wales,