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'In this memoir, Susan Duncan reaches an age where there's no point in sweating long-term ramifications. There aren't any. This new understanding delivers an unexpected bonus – the emotional freedom and moral clarity to admit to hidden and often fiendish facts of ageing and, ultimately, to find ways to embrace them.'
'It also unleashes an overwhelming desire to confront her intractable 94-year-old mother with the dreadful secrets of the past before it is too late, no matter the consequences. It is the not-knowing, she says, that does untold damage.'
'Interwoven with stories from the land – building a fully sustainable eco-house in the mid-coast of NSW with her engineer husband Bob, and grappling with white-eyed roans, dogs, bawling cattle markets, droughts and flooding rains, not to mention blunt-speaking locals – this is a book about a mother and daughter coming to terms, however uneasy, with the awful forces that shaped their relationship'. (Source: random house Books Australia website)
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Works about this Work
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A Blunt Look at the Strife of Ageing
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2016; (p. 30)
— Review of The House on the Hill 2016 single work autobiography -
New Pleasures and Old Pains
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 October 2016; (p. 12)
— Review of The House on the Hill 2016 single work autobiography
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New Pleasures and Old Pains
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 16 October 2016; (p. 12)
— Review of The House on the Hill 2016 single work autobiography -
A Blunt Look at the Strife of Ageing
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 October 2016; (p. 30)
— Review of The House on the Hill 2016 single work autobiography