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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 After She Left
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'When young Irish artist Deirdre O’Mara emigrates from the remote Blasket Islands to Sydney’s The Rocks in the 1920s, she makes an indelible mark on conservative society with her surrealist art and bohemian ways. Just after the Second World War, Deirdre leaves for Europe to be with her lover – leaving behind her estranged daughter and a family secret.  

'Years later, Deirdre’s granddaughter Keira is determined to discover the secret and her mother, Maureen, clinging to her own fears of the past and a desire to change her future, fights to stop her.

'When the three women’s lives intersect amidst the emerging women’s liberation movement and political tension in 1970s Sydney, what price will be paid for the deceptions of the past?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work has been affiliated with the Irishness in Australian Literature dataset because it contains Irish characters, settings, tropes or themes.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Paddington, Kings Cross area, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,: Impact Press , 2019 .
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      Extent: 340p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 May 2019.

      • Launched at the National Library of Australia on 16 May 2019.

      ISBN: 9781925384840
Last amended 31 Aug 2024 16:47:59
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • The Rocks, Sydney City, Inner Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • 1920s
  • 1970s
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