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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
And the whole world had opened up to her in all its blood and tragedy.
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
And now she's back on the farm.
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
And as familiar as a story like that is, there was something different about reading it from
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
from a New Zealand perspective.
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
And that's one of the things that I've enjoyed about this book is that it just takes us into the New Zealand landscape and storytelling in a way that sort of reminds me of both what we share and what's unfamiliar with New Zealand stories and why, of course, we should be reading them.
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
And so that's Ingrid Horrocks, All Her Lives, published by UQP.
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
Thanks for having us.
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
Tom Wright is a theatre writer and artistic associate at the Belvoir Street Theatre in Sydney.
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Yann Martel, Debra Adelaide and Fiona Kelly McGregor - from myth to mid‑century Sydney
And Hannah Kent is a novelist, scriptwriter and memoirist whose latest book is Always Home, Always Homesick.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
Yeah, yeah.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
Well, I do work part-time in a bookshop, so as a result, you do tend to read widely.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
So Aoife, what's going on?
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
I mean, I think in Ireland, novel writing is practically a national sport.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
And I'm an Irish-Australian and I'm about the same age as the protagonist who, as you say, has gone back to pack up her mother's house.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
And we're really talking about and what the sort of emotional aspect of the story is, exploring the
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
how times have changed so much.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
So we're looking at the 1970s, the scandal of what we think at the start is an unwanted pregnancy perhaps and a single mother and the child of that pregnancy who's now grown up and having to sort of work out what her own story is and at the same time exploring her own life in America.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
Now, that's a pretty familiar story.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
It's certainly like it's quite close to family history, my own family history records.
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On Graham Norton's A Keeper, R.O. Kwon's The Incendiaries and Georgina Harding's Land of the Living with David Hunt, Aoife Clifford and Anne Summers
My own birth, my mother was unmarried when I was born and that was quite a scandal in her small town.