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Amanda Lohrey

Amanda Lohrey lives in Tasmania and writes fiction and non-fiction. She has taught at the University of Tasmania, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland. Amanda is a regular contributor to the Monthly magazine and a former senior fellow of the Australia Council’s Literature Board. She received the 2012 Patrick White Award. The Labyrinth (2021), her eighth work of fiction, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a Prime Minister’s Literary Award, a Tasmanian Literary Award and the Voss Literary Prize.

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Title:: The Philosopher's Doll
Written by:: Amanda Lohrey
Read by:: Tracey Callander
Format:: Unabridged CD Audio Book
Number of CDs:: 8
Duration:: 7 hours 40 minutes
Published:: December 01 2004
Available Date:: May 14 2010
Age Category:: Adult
ISBN:: 1740947800
APN / ISBN-13:: 9781740947800
Genres:: Fiction; Contemporary Fiction
Publisher:: Bolinda audio

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“A complex yet totally seductively readable novel … Brilliantly detailed, blackly comic.”
Australian Book Review

A novel from the author of Camille's Bread.

What happens when one partner in a relationship wants to have a child and the other doesn't? Lindsay Eynon, a philosophy lecturer, isn't ready to start a family yet; he has other plans. But Kirsten's biological clock is ticking and she sees the world differently. As their arguments intensify, so does the probability of the unexpected...

"Callander's delivery is clear and almost Shakespearian in its diction—although she still has lots of fun with the voices of the minor characters, from posh waiters to wayward youths. The more active sections are pleasantly rewarding as Callander's reading speeds up and you are free to really concentrate on recreating Lohrey's exact scene with your mind's eye. It was this aspect of The Philosopher's Doll that I found most satisfying, even gripping. It is a structure that lends itself perfectly to the audio format."
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