Between a wolf and a dog / Georgia Blain.
Publication details: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2016.Description: 257 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781925321111
- 9781925228540
- 1925321118
- Domestic fiction
- Family therapy -- Fiction
- Psychotherapy -- Fiction
- Family therapists -- Family relationships -- Fiction
- Family therapists -- Fiction
- Family therapists -- Fiction
- Psychotherapy -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Conduct of life -- Fiction
- Rain and rainfall -- Fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.3 23
- Winner 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction. Winner 2016 Queensland Literary Award for Fiction.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | BLA | Available | 064548 |
Outside, the rain continues unceasing; silver sheets sluicing down, the trees and shrubs soaking and bedraggled, the earth sodden, puddles overflowing, torrents coursing onwards, as the darkness slowly softens with the dawn. Ester is a family therapist with an appointment book that catalogues the anxieties of the middle class: loneliness, relationships, death. She spends her days helping others find happiness, but her own family relationships are tense and frayed. Estranged from both her sister, April, and her ex-husband, Lawrence, Ester wants to fall in love again. Meanwhile, April is struggling through her own directionless life; Lawrence's reckless past decisions are catching up with him; and Ester and April's mother, Hilary, is about to make a choice that will profoundly affect then all. Taking place largely over one rainy day in Sydney, and rendered with the evocative and powerful prose Blain is known for, Between a Wolf and a Dog is a celebration of the best in all of us - our capacity to live in the face of ordinary sorrows, and to draw strength from the transformative power of art. Ultimately, it is a joyous tribute to the beauty of being alive.
Winner 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction.
Winner 2016 Queensland Literary Award for Fiction.