Salvation Creek : an unexpected life / Susan Duncan.

By: Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth)Material type: TextTextPublisher: Milsons Point, N.S.W. : Random House, 2006Description: ix, 402 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1863254749 :; 9781863254748Subject(s): Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) | Duncan, Susan | Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) -- Conduct of life | Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) | Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) | Journalists -- Australia -- Biography | Women editors -- Australia -- ‬Biography | Life change events -- Australia -- Biography | Depressed persons -- Australia -- Biography. 47 48 49 52 55 56 57 58 68 72 80 81 85 87 88 91 95 96 98 99 105 110 115 119 120 128 131 134 135 | Widows -- Australia -- Biography | Women journalists -- Australia -- Biography | Women -- Australia -- Biography | Life change events -- Biography | Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) | Editors Australia Biography | Bereavement | Bereavement | Editors | Editors -- Australia -- Biography | Life change events | AustraliaGenre/Form: Biography. | Biography DDC classification: 920.72 | 070.92 LOC classification: DS154.52.N87 | A3 2003dSummary: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. AUSTRALIAN. As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top selling women's magazines, a happy marriage, a jetsetting lifestyle covering stories from New York to Greenland, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty, the world was her oyster. But when her beloved husband and brother die within three days of each other, her glittering life shatters. In shock, she zips on her work face and soldiers on - until one morning eighteen months later when she simply can't get out of bed. Heartbreaking, funny and searingly honest, SALVATION CREEK is the story of a woman who found the courage not only to walk away from a successful career and begin again, but to beat the odds in her own battle for survival and find a new life - and love - in a tiny waterside idyll cut off from the outside world. From the terrifying first step of quitting the job that had always anchored her to abandoning herself to a passionate affair that she knows will break her heart, Duncan never flinches from the truth or loses her wicked sense of humour. Even when she finds a paradise on earth only to discover that it may be too late. It's been said that the greatest risk in life is not to take a risk. Sometimes you have to risk everything to find the only thing you need.
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Sequel - "The house at Salvation Creek".

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. AUSTRALIAN. As I bumped across the water in a leaky tin dinghy I didn't know that the journey had begun. That the pale yellow house with a corridor of columns and long verandah on the high, rough hill would hold the key to it all At 44 Susan Duncan appeared to have it all. Editor of two of Australia's top selling women's magazines, a happy marriage, a jetsetting lifestyle covering stories from New York to Greenland, rubbing shoulders with Hollywood royalty, the world was her oyster. But when her beloved husband and brother die within three days of each other, her glittering life shatters. In shock, she zips on her work face and soldiers on - until one morning eighteen months later when she simply can't get out of bed. Heartbreaking, funny and searingly honest, SALVATION CREEK is the story of a woman who found the courage not only to walk away from a successful career and begin again, but to beat the odds in her own battle for survival and find a new life - and love - in a tiny waterside idyll cut off from the outside world. From the terrifying first step of quitting the job that had always anchored her to abandoning herself to a passionate affair that she knows will break her heart, Duncan never flinches from the truth or loses her wicked sense of humour. Even when she finds a paradise on earth only to discover that it may be too late. It's been said that the greatest risk in life is not to take a risk. Sometimes you have to risk everything to find the only thing you need.

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