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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Missing Pieces
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'Inspired by the 1831 discovery of a hoard of priceless chess pieces on a remote Scottish Island, Missing Pieces tells the story of four women who created and protected the now famous artefacts. When Marianne is coerced into leaving the security of her comfortable London life to curate an exhibition on the Isle of Lewis, she uncovers her own ancestral connection to the mysterious island. Her eerie connections to the past introduce us to Magrit, the Icelandic artisan, beholden to a power-hungry Bishop, Morven, the rescuer, who seeks intimacy with a mysterious stranger and Mhairi, the negotiator, fighting a greedy landlord to stave off starvation and eviction.' (Publication summary)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Adelaide, South Australia,: MidnightSun , 2023 .
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      Extent: 350p.
      Note/s:
      • Published June 2023
      ISBN: 9781922858092

Works about this Work

Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar : Missing Pieces Ann Skea , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2024;

— Review of Missing Pieces Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar , 2023 single work novel
'Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar’s new novel is inspired by the real-life discovery of a hoard of priceless chess pieces on a remote Scottish island.'
Interdependence : Three New Novels Diane Stubbings , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 34)

— Review of Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel ; Missing Pieces Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar , 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice Rachael Mead , 2023 single work novel

'British sculptor Barbara Hepworth wrote that ‘there is no landscape without the human figure’. Similarly, there is no human without the landscape in which they are situated, human and landscape mutually shaping, resisting and defining the other.

'Three new Australian novels probe this interdependence, each of them concerned with the historical forces that have silenced and confined women, and each of them testing the capacity of their female characters to assert their stories, their selfhood, in the face of a hostile and unfamiliar landscape. Critically, what differentiates the novels is the degree to which their authors discover within these environments a similitude with their characters’ emotional struggle, the landscape not merely adorning the narrative but becoming essential to it.'(Introduction)

Interdependence : Three New Novels Diane Stubbings , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 456 2023; (p. 34)

— Review of Feast Emily O'Grady , 2023 single work novel ; Missing Pieces Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar , 2023 single work novel ; The Art of Breaking Ice Rachael Mead , 2023 single work novel

'British sculptor Barbara Hepworth wrote that ‘there is no landscape without the human figure’. Similarly, there is no human without the landscape in which they are situated, human and landscape mutually shaping, resisting and defining the other.

'Three new Australian novels probe this interdependence, each of them concerned with the historical forces that have silenced and confined women, and each of them testing the capacity of their female characters to assert their stories, their selfhood, in the face of a hostile and unfamiliar landscape. Critically, what differentiates the novels is the degree to which their authors discover within these environments a similitude with their characters’ emotional struggle, the landscape not merely adorning the narrative but becoming essential to it.'(Introduction)

Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar : Missing Pieces Ann Skea , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , January 2024;

— Review of Missing Pieces Jennifer MacKenzie Dunbar , 2023 single work novel
'Jennifer Mackenzie Dunbar’s new novel is inspired by the real-life discovery of a hoard of priceless chess pieces on a remote Scottish island.'
Last amended 5 Apr 2023 06:17:39
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    Scotland,
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    United Kingdom (UK),
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    Western Europe, Europe,
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