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Pieces of a Girl won the 1998 Jim Hamilton Award for an unpublished manuscript, and was commended in the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists Award of 2000.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Pieces of a Girl won the 1998 Jim Hamilton Award for an unpublished manuscript, and was commended in the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists Award of 2000.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