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Springtime

Michelle de Kretser

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Oct 08, 2014 Shelleyrae at Book'd Out rated it it was ok

Shelves: provided-by-publisher, aussie-author, arc-are

I requested this for review because though I own de Kretser's award winning Questions of Travel I have yet to read it.

Springtime is an introspective little piece - a short story, (presented in hardcover, smaller than a mass paperback with largish type) rather than a novella.

It is a brief portrait of a woman facing the uncertainty and impermanence of change, time and fate. The tone is ethereal, the language graceful but it didn't really speak to me beyond that. ...more

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Jan 07, 2015 Rachel Watts rated it liked it

Shelves: australian, women-writers, reviewed, australian-women-writers-2015

A heady little story, unsettling, haunting, just not in the way you might expect. Nice local Melbourne v Sydney touches. Beautiful hardback presentation too.

Read my full review here: http://leatherboundpounds.com/2015/05... ...more

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