CHARLOTTE WOOD
  • Books
    • Stone Yard Devotional
    • The Luminous Solution
    • The Weekend
    • The Writer's Room
    • The Natural Way of Things
    • Love & Hunger
    • Animal People
    • Brothers & Sisters
    • The Children
    • The Submerged Cathedral
    • Pieces of a Girl
  • Interviews
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Pieces of a Girl

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'I was a glutton for my mother's life, she tells me. Nestled there inside her I took hold and sucked the very blood from her.'

Throughout her childhood Ivy is punished for the theft of her mother’s life. Then Victor arrives suddenly one suburban Sydney summer, and stays, bringing with him the possibility of a father – but also the terrible danger that he might discover June and Ivy’s secret. Twenty years later, when Ivy is uneasily married to Linford, she searches out Victor. In his house by the beach, past and present collide.

Pieces of a Girl ​won the ​1998 Jim Hamilton Award for an unpublished manuscript, and was commended in the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists Award of 2000.

​It is currently out of print, but secondhand book stores or Ebay sometimes have copies.

"A compelling read, and although the material it deals with is sometimes disturbing, it is made easier for Wood’s lyrical writing and her fascinatingly bizarre characters."
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- Australian Bookseller & Publisher



"Atmospheric and stylish writing, compressed and highly focused."

- Sydney Morning Herald
"A teasing fiction that credibly images the confusions and fixations of a woman who comes late to taking possession of her own life ... a neat twist on linear depictions of gender bending."

- The Australian 
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"Immaculately polished style and lush, inventive imagery."

- Who Magazine 
​"A novel of genuine wit and intelligence ... by turns funny, weird, playful and sad, but it is, most of all, charming, witty, and beautifully written."

- Australian Book Review

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"Haunting, memorable, highly original."

- Adelaide Advertiser 

More by Charlotte Wood

  • Books
    • Stone Yard Devotional
    • The Luminous Solution
    • The Weekend
    • The Writer's Room
    • The Natural Way of Things
    • Love & Hunger
    • Animal People
    • Brothers & Sisters
    • The Children
    • The Submerged Cathedral
    • Pieces of a Girl
  • Interviews
  • Bio & photo
  • Contact