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The lessons

Purcell, John2022
Books, Manuscripts
1961. When teens Daisy and Harry meet, it feels so right they promise to love each other forever, but everything is stacked against them: class, education, expectations. After Daisy is sent by her parents to live with her glamorous, bohemian Aunt Jane, a novelist working on her second book, she is confronted by adult truths and suffers a loss of innocence that flings her far from the one good thing in her life, Harry. 1983. Jane Curtis, now a famous novelist, is at a prestigious book event in New York, being interviewed about the overlap between her life and her work, including one of her novels about the traumatic coming of age of a young woman. But she evades the interviewer's probing questions. What is she trying to hide?
Main title:
The lessons / by John Purcell.
Imprint:
Sydney, N.S.W. : Fourth Estate, 2022.2022.
Collation:
374 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes:
If life teaches us anything, it's that innocence doesn't last" --Front cover.
ISBN:
9781460756997 (paperback)
Language:
English
BRN:
406303
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
St MarysFictionPURCELAvailable
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