Stephanie Bishop
Autor von The Other Side of the World
Über den Autor
Stephanie Bishop is an Australian author born in 1979. She holds a PhD from Cambridge. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of NSW. The Singing was her first novel. She was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists. Her second novel, The Other Side mehr anzeigen of the World, won the Readings New Australian Writing Award 2015. The 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards named The Other Side of the World, Literary fiction book of the year. She is a lecturer in creative writing at the University of NSW (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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- Geburtstag
- 1979
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Australia
- Geburtsort
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Wohnorte
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Ausbildung
- University of Cambridge (PhD)
- Berufe
- novelist
essayist
poet
lecturer (Creative Writing) - Organisationen
- University of New South Wales
- Agent
- Emma Paterson (Aitken Alexander)
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Statistikseite
- Werke
- 5
- Mitglieder
- 232
- Beliebtheit
- #97,292
- Bewertung
- 3.3
- Rezensionen
- 21
- ISBNs
- 34
- Sprachen
- 2
In Book One, we meet Lucie a.k.a. J B Blackwood en route to collect a major literary prize. She's on a cruise ship with her auteur-husband Patrick, trying to revive their May-September marriage which is a bit rocky lately as her career blooms and his is fading. She's been sworn to secrecy by her publisher Ada, so Patrick doesn't know about the prize because, says Ada, he is a total gossip, and because he loves you so much. The plan is that she will fly on to New York for the awards ceremony at the end of the cruise.
And that's what she does, when the cruise comes to a premature end for her because Patrick is washed overboard in a ferocious storm. And then she does the publicity events at bookshops and on TV.
Yes.
That is not what a grieving widow is supposed to do.
The narration is brilliant. Are we reading the confused, distraught, occasionally drunken muddle of events from someone in shock? Or are we reading the words of a woman who mines her own life for her next novel? Or, is the whole thing a smokescreen designed to hide the truth of what happened on that night — from the authorities and from those whose love and respect she wants to keep?
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2024/05/11/the-anniversary-2023-by-stephanie-bishop/… (mehr)