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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Safety
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'Elizabeth has fallen in love in her early adulthood, but with a lack of conviction and disturbing results. A little damaged, in her late twenties she embarks on a new affair with Ross, a fellow academic at her university. Their relationship blooms and offers her protection and security, for which she's been searching since she stopped being a child. She moves into his big, old, rambling family home by the Parramatta River and becomes pregnant.

'Then Ross's father, who deserted the family as a child and for whom Ross only seems to feel hatred and bitterness, resurfaces. He is living in Spain, but he is dying. Elizabeth persuades Ross that the family should make a journey to see him, to make peace with him and to show him Anna - their new daughter.

'But their holiday lays bare discomfitting truths and frailties, both in their relationship and each other. Bennett Daylight unfolds Ross and Elizabeth's love affair, and the joy and pain of motherhood, with wonderful sensitivity in a captivating story written in her characteristically spare, limpid prose.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Russell.
  • Featured by the BIG Book Club, an initiative supported by The Advertiser in partnership with Arts SA, The Australia Council for the Arts, Channel 7, FIVEAA and the state's public libraries to promote a love of reading, discussion and literature, Jaune 2006.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Vintage Australia , 2006 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 217p.
      Written as: Tegan Bennett Daylight
      ISBN: 1740513908

Works about this Work

Thanks , but No Thanks Erin O'Dwyer , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: SundayLife , 2 December 2007; (p. 23-31)
[Review] Safety Gillian Dooley , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , 14 - 27 July no. 296 2006; (p. 18)

— Review of Safety Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2006 single work novel
Nation's Best Authors are Now Online 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 August 2006; (p. 13)

Some of Australia's prominent authors will feature in podcasts on The Advertiser's Adelaide Now website from Monday 21 August 2006.
The web address is NEWS.com.au/adelaidenow

Disparate Housewives Katharine England , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 June 2006; (p. 10)

— Review of Cleanskin Gay Lynch , 2006 single work novel ; Safety Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2006 single work novel
Daylight Savings Samela Harris , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 June 2006; (p. 11)
Life's Not Fair, but You'll Enjoy the Ride Cath Kenneally , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 February 2006; (p. 13)

— Review of Safety Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2006 single work novel
Australian Fiction Judith White , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 7 March vol. 124 no. 6510 2006; (p. 69)

— Review of Safety Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2006 single work novel
What's Romance Got to Do with It? Michelle Griffin , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 11 March 2006; (p. 26)

— Review of Safety Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2006 single work novel
The Fear of Living Dangerously Conrad Walters , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 1-2 April 2006; (p. 23)

— Review of Safety Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2006 single work novel
[Review] Safety Becky Edwards , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , March vol. 85 no. 8 2006; (p. 29)

— Review of Safety Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2006 single work novel
Must for First Time Mums Joanna Vaughan , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 3 June 2006; (p. 21)
Big book Club selection for June 2006
Exploring Love's Imperfections Erin O'Dwyer , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 11 June 2006; (p. 75)
Daylight Savings Samela Harris , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 17 June 2006; (p. 11)
Nation's Best Authors are Now Online 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 19 August 2006; (p. 13)

Some of Australia's prominent authors will feature in podcasts on The Advertiser's Adelaide Now website from Monday 21 August 2006.
The web address is NEWS.com.au/adelaidenow

Thanks , but No Thanks Erin O'Dwyer , 2007 single work criticism
— Appears in: SundayLife , 2 December 2007; (p. 23-31)
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