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'Cambridge, 1963.
'Charlotte is struggling. With motherhood, with the changes marriage and parenthood bring, with losing the time and the energy to paint. Her husband, Henry, wants things to be as they were and can’t face the thought of another English winter.
'A brochure slipped through the letterbox slot brings him the answer: ‘Australia brings out the best in you’.
'Despite wanting to stay in the place that she knows, Charlotte is too worn out to fight. Before she has a chance to realise what it will mean, she is travelling to the other side of the world. Arriving in Perth, the southern sun shines a harsh light on both Henry and Charlotte and slowly reveals that their new life is not the answer either was hoping for. Charlotte is left wondering if there is anywhere she belongs and how far she’ll go to find her way home …'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Notes
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Dedication: For Boyd
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Epigraph:
'Nostalgia (from nostros - return home, and algia - longing) is a longing for home that no longer exists or has never existed. Nostalgia is a sentiment of loss and displacement, but it is also a romane with one's own fantasy. Nostalgic love can only survive in a long-distance relationship. A cinematic image of nostalgia is a double exposure, or a superimposition of two images - of home and abroad, past and present, dream and everyday life. The moment we try to force it into a single image, it breaks the frame or burns the surface.' –Svetlana Boym, The Future of Nostalgia
'Because of course the dream-England is no more than a dream.' -Salman Rushdie, Imaginary Homelands.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Sound recording.
- Braille.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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‘Could Not Put It Down’
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Sydney Review of Books , October 2015;
— Review of The Landing 2015 single work novel ; Relativity 2015 single work novel ; The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
Review : The Other Side of the World
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , September 2015; (p. 38)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
Perthward
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 374 2015; (p. 61)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
Review : The Other Side of the World
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 115 2015; (p. 56)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
Exploring the Mysterious Pull of Memory and Home
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 9 August 2015; (p. 12) The Sunday Age , 9 August 2015; (p. 16)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel
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Poetic Immersion in Streams of Time
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 27-28 June 2015; (p. 18)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
Well Read
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 July 2015; (p. 32)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
A Journey into the Meaning of Exile
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 1 August 2015; (p. 24) The Sydney Morning Herald , 1 August 2015; (p. 24)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
Exploring the Mysterious Pull of Memory and Home
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 9 August 2015; (p. 12) The Sunday Age , 9 August 2015; (p. 16)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
Review : The Other Side of the World
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Monthly , September no. 115 2015; (p. 56)
— Review of The Other Side of the World 2015 single work novel -
An Experience of Migration
2015
single work
essay
— Appears in: Australian Women’s Book Review , vol. 27 no. 1 / 2 2015-2016; (p. 30-33) 'This book, with its brilliantly-designed cover, had an immediate appeal for me, for I also left my native land for the other side of the world, although my move from Australia to Greece in 1980 was a very different one from that made by Charlotte and Henry, the novel’s protagonists, from Cambridge to Perth in the 1960s. Bishop says that her writing was inspired by the migration experiences of her grandparents, and indeed the twentieth century was one of mass migration, as the twenty-first is also proving to be.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2016 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Multicultural NSW
- 2016 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2016 longlisted The Stella Prize
- 2016 shortlisted Indie Awards — Fiction
- 2016 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction