In the Garden of the Fugitives
$31.35
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
26 February 2018
Summary
From the award-winning author of Only the Animals comes an unputdownable novel of obsession, guilt, and the power of the past to possess the present.
Almost twenty years after forbidding him to contact her, Vita receives an email from her old benefactor, Royce. Once, she was one of his brightest proteges; now her career has stalled and Royce is ailing, and each has a need to settle accounts.
Beyond their murky shared history, both have lost beloveds, one to an untimel…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781926428598 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1926428595 |
| Author: | Ceridwen Dovey |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Hamish Hamilton |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 26 February 2018 |
| Weight: | 426g |
| Dimensions: | 232mm x 154mm x 24mm |
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About The Author
Ceridwen Dovey
Ceridwen Dovey is a writer based in Sydney. She’s the author of several acclaimed works of fiction (Blood Kin, Only the Animals, In the Garden of the Fugitives, Life After Truth, Once More With Feeling) and non-fiction (On J.M. Coetzee- Writers on Writers and Inner Worlds Outer Spaces- The Working Lives of Others). Her non-fiction essays have been published by the Smithsonian Magazine, WIRED, Vogue, the Monthly and Alexander, among many others. She’s the recipient of an Australian Museum Eureka Award, and the 2020 & 2021 UNSW Press Bragg Prize for science writing. Her latest book is Mothertongues, a work of literary fiction co-authored with Eliza Bell, and including original songs by Australian songwriter Keppie Coutts.
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