BOOKS FROM AUSTRALIAAfter Story
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Female author
Description:
When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother Della on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them reconcile the past. Twenty-five years earlier the disappearance of Jasmine's older sister devastated their tight-knit community. This tragedy returns to haunt Jasmine and Della when another child mysteriously goes missing on Hampstead Heath. As Jasmine immerses herself in the world of her literary idols - including Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters and Virginia Woolf - Della is inspired to rediscover the wisdom of her own culture and storytelling. But sometimes the stories that are not told can become too great to bear.Ambitious and engrossing, After Story celebrates the extraordinary power of words and the quiet spaces between. We can be ready to listen, but are we ready to hear?
Reviews:
(2 weeks ago) |
07 Jan, 2025
I really enjoyed this - I love the dual perspectives that relate the same day from different minds. How what we say may take on a different meaning for the person listening. The idea of deep listening and that what we don’t say, the silences between words can matter more than the words. I love the storytelling - the mother retelling Aunty Elaine’s stories. And butterflies - that those that die don’t leave us, they come back in another form.
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