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Author

Steven Carroll

Steven Carroll was born in Melbourne and grew up in Glenroy. He went to La Trobe University and taught English in high schools before playing in bands in the 1970s. After leaving the music scene he began writing as a playwright and became the theatre critic for the Sunday Age. He has recently given up his lecturing post at RMIT to write full-time and lives in Brunswick‚ Victoria. In 2008 his novel, The Time We Have Taken, won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book as well as the Miles Franklin Award‚ Australia's most prestigious literary prize.

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Title:

The Lost Life

Written by:

Steven Carroll 

Read by:

Deidre Rubenstein 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

5 

Duration:

5 hours 57 minutes 

Published:

August 01 2009 

Available Date:

August 01 2009 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781742333830 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 18.95

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International bestseller

Shortlisted ALS Gold Medal 2010
Shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award 2010

"A writer worth cherishing. His prose is unfailingly assured, lyrical, poised."
The Australian

From the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The Time We Have Taken.

England‚ September, 1934. Two young lovers‚ Catherine and Daniel‚ have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton‚ an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps‚ they hide‚ and then witness the poet T.S. ('Tom') Eliot and his close friend Emily enter the garden and bury a mysterious tin in the earth. Tom and Emily knew each other in America in their youth; now in their forties‚ they have come together again. But Tom is married‚ and his wife has no intention of letting him go. What is it that binds Tom and Emily together? What happens when the muse steps out of the shadows? In the enclosed world of an English village one autumn‚ their story becomes entwined with that of Catherine and Daniel‚ who are certain in their newfound love and full of possibility. From one of Australia's finest writers‚ this is a moving‚ lyrical novel about poetry and inspiration‚ the incandescence of first love and the yearning for a life that may never be lived.

"This beautiful and poetically attentive novel retrieves a warm, beating heart from Eliot's haunted, stark, magnificent work of art."
Australian Literary Review