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y separately published work icon A World of Other People single work   novel   historical fiction  
Is part of The Eliot Quartet Steven Carroll , 2009 series - author novel (number 2 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 A World of Other People
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Units Teaching this Work

Text Unit Name Institution Year
y separately published work icon A World of Other People Steven Carroll , Sydney : Fourth Estate , 2013 Z1932853 2013 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 2 units) 'Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society's thin-lipped disapproval. The poet T.S. Eliot, with whom Iris shares firewatching duties, unwittingly seals their fate with his poem 'Little Gidding', one of the famous Four Quartets.' (Publisher's blurb)
Australian Texts University of Sydney 2014 (Semester 1)
y separately published work icon A World of Other People Steven Carroll , Sydney : Fourth Estate , 2013 Z1932853 2013 single work novel historical fiction (taught in 2 units) 'Set in 1941 during the Blitz, A World of Other People traces the love affair of Jim, an Australian pilot in Bomber Command, and Iris, a forthright Englishwoman finding her voice as a writer.The young couple, haunted by secrets and malign coincidence, struggles to build a future free of society's thin-lipped disapproval. The poet T.S. Eliot, with whom Iris shares firewatching duties, unwittingly seals their fate with his poem 'Little Gidding', one of the famous Four Quartets.' (Publisher's blurb)
Australian Texts: International Contexts University of Sydney 2015 (Semester 2)
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