- Fiction, Australians, Sisters, National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
Caroline and Grace Bell, two orphan sisters eager to begin their lives in a new land, journey to England from Australia. What happens to these young women - seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal - becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and prestige.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Shirley Hazzard
- First published
- 1980
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Berkley Pub Group, Virago Press Ltd, Penguin
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- English, heb, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781860491818
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“By nightfall the headlines would be reporting devastation.”
Shirley Hazzard (30 January 1931 – 12 December 2016) was an Australian-American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She was born in Australia and also held U.S. citizenship.[\[ ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Hazzard#cite_note-1)Hazzard's 1970 novel *The Bay of Noon* was shortlisted for the Lost Man Booker Prize in 2010;[ ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Hazzard#cite_note-3)her 2003 novel *The Great Fire* won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction, the Miles Franklin Award and the William Dean Howells Medal.[ ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Hazzard#cite_note-nba2003-4)Hazzard also wrote nonfiction, including two books based on her experiences working at the U
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