The house at Salvation Creek / Susan Duncan.
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TextPublication details: North Sydney, N.S.W. : Bantam, 2008Description: xii, 370 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781863256483 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Duncan, Susan | Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) | Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) | Duncan, Susan -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Sydney (N.S.W.) | Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) | Duncan, Susan (Susan Elizabeth) | Duncan, Susan -- Homes and haunts -- Australia -- Sydney (N. S. W.) | Duncan, Susan | Editors -- Australia -- Biography | Life change events | Dwellings -- New South Wales -- Pittwater | Dwellings -- New South Wales -- Pitt Water | Women journalists -- Australia -- Biography | Women journalists -- Australia | Journalists -- Australia -- Biography | Homes | Journalists | Women journalists | Pittwater (N.S.W.) | Pitt Water (N.S.W.) -- Anecdotes | Pitt Water (N.S.W.) | Pitt Water (N.S.W.) -- Description and travel | Australia | New South Wales -- SydneyGenre/Form: Biography. DDC classification: 920.72 LOC classification: CT2808.D8 | A34 2008Summary: "'A long time ago, but still barely more than ten years, I had another life. In the fast lane. But death changed all that. My brother, John, and my husband, Paul, slid slowly away within three days of each other and nothing was ever the same. Grief sent me mad for a while. Although I only understand that now. 'Continuing the story of Susan Duncan's bestselling and much-loved memoir, Salvation Creek, The House picks up after Bob and Susan marry and, two years later, move from her Tin Shed into his 'pale yellow house on the high, rough hill', Tarrangaua, built for the iconic Australian poet, Dorothea Mackellar."Summary: "Set against the backdrop of the small, close-knit Pittwater community with its colourful characters and quirky history, The House is about what happens when you open the door to life, adventure, and love. But it's also about mothers and daughters, as Susan confronts her mother's new frailty and her own role in what has always been a difficult relationship. Where Salvation Creek was about mortality - living life in the face of death - The House is about stepping outside your comfort zone and embracing challenges, at any age. In turn funny and moving, Susan Duncan's beautifully written sequel reminds us to honour what matters in life, and to disregard what really doesn't." -- Book cover.
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult Nonfiction | B / DUN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | al42000157619b |
"A Bantam book published by Random House Australia Pty Ltd" -- Title page verso.
"'A long time ago, but still barely more than ten years, I had another life. In the fast lane. But death changed all that. My brother, John, and my husband, Paul, slid slowly away within three days of each other and nothing was ever the same. Grief sent me mad for a while. Although I only understand that now. 'Continuing the story of Susan Duncan's bestselling and much-loved memoir, Salvation Creek, The House picks up after Bob and Susan marry and, two years later, move from her Tin Shed into his 'pale yellow house on the high, rough hill', Tarrangaua, built for the iconic Australian poet, Dorothea Mackellar."
"Set against the backdrop of the small, close-knit Pittwater community with its colourful characters and quirky history, The House is about what happens when you open the door to life, adventure, and love. But it's also about mothers and daughters, as Susan confronts her mother's new frailty and her own role in what has always been a difficult relationship. Where Salvation Creek was about mortality - living life in the face of death - The House is about stepping outside your comfort zone and embracing challenges, at any age. In turn funny and moving, Susan Duncan's beautifully written sequel reminds us to honour what matters in life, and to disregard what really doesn't." -- Book cover.
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