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Disquiet / Julia Leigh

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2008Description: 120 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143113508
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.92
Summary: Olivia arrives at her mother's chateau in rural France (the first time in more than a decade) with her two young children in tow. Soon the family is joined by Olivia's brother Marcus and his wife Sophie but this reunion is far from joyful. After years of desperately wanting a baby, Sophie has just given birth to a stillborn child, and she is struggling to overcome her devastation. Meanwhile, Olivia wrestles with her own secrets about the cruel and violent man she married many years before. Exquisitely written and reminiscent of Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee, Disquiet is a darkly beautiful and atmospheric story that will linger in the mind long after the final page is turned.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Barcode
Book Book Main Library Reference Section Women’s Collection WC 823.92 L528d 2008 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 132519d
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WC 823.912 M156e 1986 Extraordinary women : theme and variations WC 823.914 M232v 1985 Virgin territory WC 823.914 R646d 1993 During mother's absence WC 823.92 L528d 2008 Disquiet WC 823.92 P437s 2018 Saudade WC 824 Sc378o 1987 An Olive Schreiner reader : writings on women and South Africa WC 828.307 T276 1988 Telling ways : Australian women's experimental writing

Olivia arrives at her mother's chateau in rural France (the first time in more than a decade) with her two young children in tow. Soon the family is joined by Olivia's brother Marcus and his wife Sophie but this reunion is far from joyful. After years of desperately wanting a baby, Sophie has just given birth to a stillborn child, and she is struggling to overcome her devastation. Meanwhile, Olivia wrestles with her own secrets about the cruel and violent man she married many years before. Exquisitely written and reminiscent of Ian McEwan and J.M. Coetzee, Disquiet is a darkly beautiful and atmospheric story that will linger in the mind long after the final page is turned.

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