Cirrus@Austlit

'There are many beautiful buildings on North Terrace, Adelaide, home to the edifices of stone where the activities of colonial government were once performed. In the single long block resides the State Library, the museum, the art gallery and two university campuses; the tightest grouping of cultural institutions I have seen. North Terrace projects a magnetism, a gravity.'  (Introduction)

'Toni Jordan’s latest novel, The Fragments, draws together two women living about 50 years apart: Caddie, an avid reader and bookseller, in Joh Bjelke-Petersen-era Brisbane; and Rachel, a Pennsylvania farmgirl, who runs away from a silk factory and poverty to reinvent herself in 1930s New York. What links them is a world-renowned writer, Inga Karlson, and her first novel, All Has an End.'  (Introduction)