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| Author | Thomas Keneally |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 2000 |
| Publication place | Australia |
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| Pages | 598 pp. |
| ISBN | 1864710004 |
| Preceded by | A River Town |
| Followed by | An Angel in Australia |
Bettany's Book is a 2000 novel by the Australian author Thomas Keneally. [1]
Prim and Dimp Bettany are sisters whose parents were killed in a car accident. Dimp becomes rather famous as a filmmaker while Prim escapes Australia for Sudan to work for Austfam, as an aid worker. The sisters are drawn back together when Dimp is given a copy of an ancestor's journal of 19th-century frontier Tasmania.
Writing in The Daily Mail (UK) reviewer Elizabeth Buchan noted: "Rich, measured and reflective, Bettany's Book requires time and concentration - but it is worth it." [2]
A critic in The Guardian commented: "The first thing to be said about Thomas Keneally's new novel, Bettany's Book - indeed, the first thing to be said about almost any Keneally novel - is that it is very long. Keneally can always be depended upon: wherever and whenever they are set, his books are reassuringly thick and dense. There is nothing dilletantish, frittering or minor about them." [3]
After the novel's initial publication in Australia, UK and USA by Doubleday in 2000, [1] it was reprinted as follows:
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