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When Eadie Wilt disappears during the flood, everyone thinks she has drowned. But Siddy Church's granddaughter has more life to live in a household filled with stories and larger-than-life characters. (Publisher blurb)
Notes
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Epigraph: Whence came I and on what wings that it should take me so long, humiliated and exiled to accept that I am myself. (Collette, The Vagabond).
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The author's lengthy acknowledgements state in part : This is a work of fiction influence by real lives. It also quotes Vita Sackvill West's statement to Virginia Woolf : No character in fiction is ever wholly fictitious.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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The Poetry of Aunties
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News (What's On) , 15 March vol. 64 no. 23 1998; (p. 8)
— Review of The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel -
True Fever
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 149 1997; (p. 93-94)
— Review of The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel ; The Wild Reply 1997 selected work poetry -
The Poetry of Aunties
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 190 1997; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel -
A Wonderful Life, Filled with the Poetry of Aunties
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 May 1997; (p. C10)
— Review of The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel -
Abused and Beaten
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 May 1997; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Plains of Promise 1997 single work novel ; The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel
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Abused and Beaten
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 10-11 May 1997; (p. rev 9)
— Review of Plains of Promise 1997 single work novel ; The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel -
A Wonderful Life, Filled with the Poetry of Aunties
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 10 May 1997; (p. C10)
— Review of The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel -
The Poetry of Aunties
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 190 1997; (p. 43-44)
— Review of The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel -
True Fever
1997
single work
review
— Appears in: Overland , Summer no. 149 1997; (p. 93-94)
— Review of The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel ; The Wild Reply 1997 selected work poetry -
The Poetry of Aunties
1998
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Jewish News (What's On) , 15 March vol. 64 no. 23 1998; (p. 8)
— Review of The Ballad of Siddy Church 1997 single work novel
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