 First edition | |
| Author | Drusilla Modjeska |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Genre | novel |
| Publisher | Vintage |
Publication date | 2012 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 432 pp |
| ISBN | 9781741666502 |
| Preceded by | The Orchard |
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Lloyd Jones in The Guardian noted that the novel is "a big and ambitious novel charting new territory in Australian contemporary fiction. There is much to admire." [2] Eleanor Limprecht in The Sydney Morning Herald found the novel "is a complex, multi-layered novel, so that the central story is viewed through different angles, in different lights, and comes to mean many different things. [3]
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