Sarah Kennedy (International) assertion Sarah Kennedy i(11376588 works by)
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2 y separately published work icon Secrets in Featherwood Falls Heather Reyburn , ( nar. Sarah Kennedy ) Australia : Heather Reyburn , 2024 29246810 2022 single work novel romance

'A small country town. A conscientious cop. And a whole lot of secrets.

'Constable Rhys Morton is new to Featherwood Falls and knows one thing for certain, he wants to remain in this village as much as he wants to remain a cop. But, just as he uncovers troubling historical information, an accusation threatens his security and he must weigh up his options. Should he pursue the cold case and risk ruffling powerful feathers, or protect his future and a budding romance?

'Claire Shepherd is still reeling from her father’s death and when fresh heartbreak strikes, she seeks peace in the haven of Featherwood Station, her childhood home. Sparks fly between Claire and the new cop in town and she is torn between her dream of managing her father’s legacy or falling for a man whose position is only temporary.
Alarm bells chime when new neighbours move in. Is this little town the sleepy hollow Rhys believed it to be? Desperate to uncover local secrets, he seeks Claire’s help.
After all, she knows the area, and he has nothing to lose—except his heart.' (Publication summary)

2 y separately published work icon A Stranger in Featherwood Falls Heather Reyburn , ( nar. Sarah Kennedy ) Australia : Heather Reyburn , 2024 29246758 2022 single work novel romance

'To lose a loved one is tragic, but to lose a lifetime of dreams? Unthinkable.

'Alone on a two thousand hectare sheep and cattle property, Ginny Shepherd questions her husband’s sudden death, convinced it was no accident. As a series of farm related incidents unravel, heightening her suspicions, her livelihood is put under threat.

'Featherwood Station is Ginny’s lifeblood—her passion, her home, and her haven and she is determined it will stay that way. But it seems someone else wants the property as much as she does and will stop at nothing to get it.

'When a stranger finds a forgotten token gifted to him as a child, distant memories set him on a path to pursue his grandfather’s dream. But, greeted with more questions than answers, he finds life in the heart of Queensland’s Granite Belt more difficult than expected.

'A smouldering attraction forms between he and Ginny, alarm bells sound and frightening events escalate. Ginny’s life is in danger.

'Is the stranger who he says he is? Or could it be that someone has a grudge to settle?' (Publication summary)

1 “Where’s Home, Ulysses?” Judith Wright in Europe 1937 Sarah Kennedy , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , June vol. 52 no. 2 2017; (p. 331–349)
'When Judith Wright travelled to Europe in the “loaded spring” of February 1937, the 22-year-old poet found herself witness to “a break in the consciousness of Europe”. This article argues that Wright’s experience of being an outsider in Europe at this crucial historical moment had profound implications for her poetics, in the form of a compound and productive series of displacements. Her peripatetic encounters with European cultures-in-crisis caused Wright to despair of Europe as a source of political and creative renewal, and exposed fault lines in her own cultural orientation. Sundered from her Anglophile cultural inheritance, and able to reflect on home with the distance and imaginative ambivalence of an outsider, Wright invoked Ulysses — that archetypal poetic wanderer — whose experience of archipelagic journeying came to express for her the contingencies and hauntedness of Australia’s palimpsestic identity. This essay positions the shifting perspectives and excursive patterns of Wright’s developing poetics in relation to concepts of outsideness and embodiment, drawing on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and phenomenological philosophies of mind.' (Publication abstract)
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