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What precisely is home for Fi? Where her mother lived in Northern New South Wales, among the tea-drinking relatives who, as Gillian reminds her, made Fi what she is today? Is home the girl of the moment who happens to make her heart miss a beat? Or is home merely one of the houses Fi has bought in Australia or leased in Bali? Fi is contrary, her head and her heart responding to different music. And as a child, Fi was sensitive to the ghostly spirits of the Bundjalung who inhabited the land the Hindmarshes and the Darks took over for dairy farms. How does she reconcile the mutterings and wailings and chantings she hears in her heart with the classic cinema sound booming in her head and the skin-smarting indignity of betrayal?
A novel combining a love story with a perspective on the farmers' settlement history of the Far North Coast of New South Wales, that grew with new grass on old rainforest soil. (Publisher blurb)
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Book 2 of the Fish Lips Trilogy.
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Very brief review appears in The Bulletin, 12 August 2003, p.75.
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Dedication: For my granmothers, Edith Lane and Annie Kirkland.
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Epigraph: Fry me a sardine, the wind is blowing and I'll be off. Deborah Levy - An Amorous Discourse in the Suburbs of Hell.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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Carolyn van Langenberg : Creativity from Stark Realism
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 14 (Arabic) 2003; (p. 45-58) -
Travelling Borderlands
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 15 no. 2 2003;
— Review of The Teetotaller's Wake 2003 single work novel -
Fiction
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 95 2003; (p. 80-84)
— Review of Seven Types of Ambiguity 2003 single work novel ; Anthology of Australasian Stories 2003 anthology short story ; The Teetotaller's Wake 2003 single work novel -
Fish Lips and The Teetotaller's Wake. (Book Review)
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 2 2003; (p. 202-204)
— Review of Fish Lips 2001 single work novel ; The Teetotaller's Wake 2003 single work novel -
Tampa Proof? Australian Fiction 2002-2003
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 48 no. 2003; (p. 159-174)
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In Short : Fiction
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 31 May-1 June 2003; (p. 19)
— Review of The Teetotaller's Wake 2003 single work novel ; Terminator Gene 2003 single work novel ; Notes from the Esplanade 2003 single work novel -
Paperbacks
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 June 2003; (p. 18)
— Review of The Teetotaller's Wake 2003 single work novel ; Under the Green Moon 2002 single work novel -
Fish Lips and The Teetotaller's Wake. (Book Review)
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 63 no. 2 2003; (p. 202-204)
— Review of Fish Lips 2001 single work novel ; The Teetotaller's Wake 2003 single work novel -
Fiction
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Island , Summer no. 95 2003; (p. 80-84)
— Review of Seven Types of Ambiguity 2003 single work novel ; Anthology of Australasian Stories 2003 anthology short story ; The Teetotaller's Wake 2003 single work novel -
Travelling Borderlands
2003
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Women's Book Review , vol. 15 no. 2 2003;
— Review of The Teetotaller's Wake 2003 single work novel -
Tampa Proof? Australian Fiction 2002-2003
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Westerly , November vol. 48 no. 2003; (p. 159-174) -
Carolyn van Langenberg : Creativity from Stark Realism
2003
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Kalimat : An International Periodical of English and Arabic Creative Writing , June no. 14 (Arabic) 2003; (p. 45-58)
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