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Issue Details: First known date: 2008... 2008 Beneath the Bloodwood Tree
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'Pia Ricci has come to Port Hedland to free her life of complications and distractions. But when Pia discovers a bundle of money and men's clothing buried on the outskirts of town, she has an uncomfortable feeling that things are about to change. Is it connected to the foreigner Joachim, a new arrival in town? Or to the ghosts in her own past? As Pia and Joachim grow closer, Pia can see he has secrets. The widow Barnes, one of Joachim's nursing charges, also holds secrets, and they're coming to the surface. As these three misfits come together, their world starts to change in ways they could never have expected.

'Set against the vast inhospitable landscape of the Pilbara, this is a powerful, tightly-woven desert tale of ghosts, grief and love.' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'Every man has to, wants to, needs to, once a lifetime, do a girl in.'--T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes.

Affiliation Notes

  • Associated with the AustLit subset Australian Literary Responses to 'Asia' as the work contains an 'Asian' character.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2008 .
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      Extent: 282p.
      Note/s:
      • Published January 1st 2008
      ISBN: 9781741752304 (pbk)
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Works about this Work

Off the Shelf : Fiction Thuy On , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 August 2008; (p. 28)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne Van Loon , 2008 single work novel
Sinister Silence to Unavenged Crime Dorothy Johnston , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 July 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne Van Loon , 2008 single work novel
Women Under Pressure Genevieve Tucker , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 3 no. 6 2008; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne Van Loon , 2008 single work novel ; The Steele Diaries Wendy James , 2008 single work novel ; Musk and Byrne Fiona Capp , 2008 single work novel
Abridgment of Hope Peter Pierce , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 29)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne Van Loon , 2008 single work novel
Abridgment of Hope Peter Pierce , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , June no. 302 2008; (p. 29)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne Van Loon , 2008 single work novel
Women Under Pressure Genevieve Tucker , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian Literary Review , July vol. 3 no. 6 2008; (p. 22-23)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne Van Loon , 2008 single work novel ; The Steele Diaries Wendy James , 2008 single work novel ; Musk and Byrne Fiona Capp , 2008 single work novel
Sinister Silence to Unavenged Crime Dorothy Johnston , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 5 July 2008; (p. 14)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne Van Loon , 2008 single work novel
Off the Shelf : Fiction Thuy On , 2008 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 2 August 2008; (p. 28)
— Review of Beneath the Bloodwood Tree Julienne Van Loon , 2008 single work novel
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Last amended 16 Aug 2021 12:50:23
Subjects:
Settings:
  • Port Hedland, Pilbara area, North Western Australia, Western Australia,
  • 1990s
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