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Living alone in the Blue Mountains, baby-boomer Kate Ward is estranged from her adult son. Where did it all go wrong? She decides to return to Salt Pan Creek, the place of her childhood in post-war Sydney suburbia. It's here that she must come to terms with a history that's far greater than her own personal past. While All the Lives We've Lived takes us back to relive the fifties, sixties and seventies, it's Kate's willingness to confront the truth of her teenage relationship with Gary, an indigenous boy, that reflects Australia's need to face its collective colonial past. Blending fictional…mehr

Produktbeschreibung
Living alone in the Blue Mountains, baby-boomer Kate Ward is estranged from her adult son. Where did it all go wrong? She decides to return to Salt Pan Creek, the place of her childhood in post-war Sydney suburbia. It's here that she must come to terms with a history that's far greater than her own personal past. While All the Lives We've Lived takes us back to relive the fifties, sixties and seventies, it's Kate's willingness to confront the truth of her teenage relationship with Gary, an indigenous boy, that reflects Australia's need to face its collective colonial past. Blending fictional and historical characters and events, this deeply moving novel of interconnected stories is ultimately about storytelling itself: about our need to tell them; about the ones we remember; the ones we value; and the ones we distort because the truth may be too hard to bear. 'This is an exceptional novel - a work of the imagination edged with compelling reality. The lives go on in the rhythms of the prose and vibrate in the memory. The story is a brave one, and this is a book I will come back to again.' - Robert Adamson, poet, publisher and inaugural CAL Chair of Poetry at University of Technology, Sydney 'Each story is a jewel set perfectly into the whole where the interior worlds of the characters are rendered in engaging and powerful detail.' - Jo Gardiner, author of The Concerto Inn
Autorenporträt
ROSLYN MCFARLAND is the author of "See No Sea" (currently available in both e-book and paperback formats, audiobook) and it's follow up "Hear No Sea", the short story "Soldier Boy" (originally released in the Fall of 2014 Northwest Independent Writers Association Anthology), and "Light the Way" (Loves Light book one of the Paradisi Chronicles, Book two to follow shortly). All are nice clean Young Adult Rom-ances. In 2006 she was struck down by health problems, which progressed into full immobility over the course of six and a half years, undiagnosed. Going out of her mind via the enormous worry-frustration-pain-boredom combo she shouldered, Roslyn's solution and salvation came in the form of writing, as she expelled a childhood recurring dream onto paper. The comp-letion of her first novel coincided with a diagnosis of Lyme Disease. Treatment and a cure quickly following cleared the way for editing and preparation for publication. God works in mysterious ways. Roslyn currently lives in Oregon with her husband, two extraordinarily active and strong willed little girls (karma) and a house full of fur kids (cats and dogs, one huge goldfish and its numerous fishy friends). She's already writing book three of the No Sea Trilogy, which she hopes to release Summer 2017, as well as starting two other tales, with more ready to go, multitasking at a whole new level! Already amassing a lengthy list of future series ideas, Roslyn hopes to be able to continue turning dreams into reality for many years to come.