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Author Bird, Carmel, 1940- author.

Title Field of poppies / Carmel Bird.

Publication Info. Melbourne (Vic.) : Transit Lounge, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (152 pages)
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Summary Keen to escape the pressures of city life, Marsali Swift and her husband William are drawn to Listowel, a glorious historic mansion in the seemingly tranquil small town of Muckleton. There is time to read, garden, decorate, play chess and befriend the locals. Yet one night Listowel is robbed, and soon after a neighbour is murdered. The violent history of the couple's adopted Goldfields town is revealed, and plans for a new goldmine emerge. Subtle and sinister details unnerve : the novels that are studied at book club echo disappearances and colonial transgressions, a treasured copy painting painting of Monet's Field of Poppies recalls loves and dreams but also times of war. Atmospheric and beguiling this is a novel the seduces the reader with mysteries and beauties but also speaks of something much larger. The planet is in trouble, but is the human race up to the challenge? Are Marsali and William walking blindfold into a hostile world? 'It celebrates the human catastrophe with grace and charm. It takes years of experience for a writer to be able to pull off this kind of sorcery.' -- Michael McGirr 'Carmel Bird has a gift for distilling the essence of her characters and locations and bringing them together in wonderfully unexpected ways. Her distinctive voice and lightness of touch shine in this penetrating and evocative novel.' -- Michael Sala
Note Print version record.
Subject Husband and wife -- Fiction.
Life change events -- Fiction.
Mansions -- Australia -- Victoria -- Fiction.
Small cities -- Australia -- Victoria -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Missing persons -- Australia -- Victoria -- Fiction.
Book clubs (Discussion groups) -- Fiction.
Victoria -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.
Book clubs (Discussion groups) (OCoLC)fst00836131
City and town life. (OCoLC)fst00862081
Husband and wife. (OCoLC)fst00964385
Life change events. (OCoLC)fst00998231
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Mansions. (OCoLC)fst01007944
Missing persons. (OCoLC)fst01023702
Small cities. (OCoLC)fst01743749
Victoria. (OCoLC)fst01205049
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Other Form: Print version: Bird, Carmel. Field of Poppies. Melbourne : Transit Lounge Publishing, ©2019 9781925760392
ISBN 9781925760453 (electronic book)
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