- Title:
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In Certain Circles
- Written by:
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Elizabeth Harrower
- Read by:
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Deidre Rubenstein
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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8
- Duration:
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8 hours 25 minutes
- Published:
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November 28 2017
- Available Date:
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November 28 2017
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781489415851
- Genres:
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Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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Price
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Longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2015
Winner Voss Literary Prize 2015
Shortlisted NSW Premier's Literary Awards / Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2015
Shortlisted Colin Roderick Award 2015
An exploration of relationships, marriage, passion, beauty and the price of love.
Zoe Howard is 17 when her brother, Russell, introduces her to Stephen Quayle. Aloof and harsh, Stephen is unlike anyone she has ever met, ‘a weird, irascible character out of some dense Russian novel’. His sister, Anna, is shy and thoughtful, ‘a little orphan’.
Zoe and Russell, Stephen and Anna: they may come from different social worlds but all four will spend their lives moving in and out of each other’s shadow.
Set amid the lush gardens and grand stone houses that line the north side of Sydney Harbour, In Certain Circles is an intense psychological drama about family and love, tyranny and freedom.
'Subtle yet wounding, and very much alive.’
The Guardian
'a polished, funny, bleak novel about the subject that has continuously obsessed Harrower: the relations between men and women, specifically the dynamics of power at play in those relations in an era of sanctioned sexism.'
The New Yorker
‘With its flavor of Henry James, Harrower’s rediscovered story is an odd, brittle yet impressive piece of work that exposes the complex passions beneath a drawing-room-scenario surface.’
Kirkus Reviews