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The Life of Houses explores, with a poet’s eye for detail, the hidden tensions in one of Australia’s establishment families. These tensions come to the surface during a week in summer when Kit’s recently-divorced mother sends her away to stay with her estranged grandparents, and her unmarried aunt who cares for them, in their old and decaying house by the sea.
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"The Life of Houses was named Co-Winner of the Prime Ministers Award for Fiction – a novel exploring the relationship between mothers, daughters and the coming of age. In a style reminiscent of Henry James and Patrick White, it is a novel about mothers and daughters, and coming of age. “A unique, startling novel.” THE AUSTRALIAN"
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