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Narrator

Eva Seymour

Eva graduated from the Full Time Program at 16th St Actors’ Studio in 2015, after which she was selected as the Red Stitch Graduate Ensemble Member for 2016. Throughout that year, her Red Stitch credits included The River, The Honey Bees, Trevor, You Got Older and Uncle Vanya. Eva furthered her training in 2017, when she was selected for the Acting Shakespeare Course at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Her film credits include Lazy Bones, Pillars, So Long, Fathers’ Day and The BBQ.

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Title:

Heartsease

Written by:

Kate Kruimink 

Read by:

Eva Seymour 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

7 

Duration:

7 hours 44 minutes 

Published:

June 28 2024 

Available Date:

June 28 2024 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781038676306 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Macmillan Australia 

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Award winning author
Australian author

Heartsease is a novel set in present-day Tasmania, told from the alternating perspectives of two sisters, Ellen and Charlotte, and concerned with grief, love and memory.

I saw my mother for a long time after she died. I would see her out windows, or in the corner of my eye. Always in the periphery, always a dim blur, but unmistakably my mother, the herness skating through every line and flicker. Charlotte ('Lot') and Ellen ('Nelly') are sisters who were once so close a Venn diagram of the two would have formed a circle. But a great deal has changed since their mother's death, years before. Clever, beautiful, gentle Lot has been unfailingly dutiful – basically a disaster of an older sister for much younger Nelly, still haunted by their mother in her early 30s. When the pair meet at a silent retreat in a strange old house in the Tasmanian countryside, the spectres of memory are unleashed. Heartsease is a sad, sly and darkly comic story about the weight of grief and the ways in which family cleave to us, for better and for worse. It's an account of love and ghosts so sharp it will leave you with paper cuts.

'Warm and lively ... a witty Tasmanian Moby Dick' (on A Treacherous Country)
Tegan Bennett Daylight, author of Safety and Bombora