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Issue Details: First known date: 2024... 2024 To Carve Identity
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"In 1949 Ellie Gilmartin returned to her native Glasgow after travelling to Australia to learn the truth about her parents' tragic lives. If her professional career as a sculptor was progressing nicely, her private life was in limbo as she reflected on her long-distance relationship with solicitor Jim Blackwood. Fortune smiled on Ellie. Jim came looking for her and so their future began. The novel follows these two very different people as they negotiate married life - first in London, then in the NSW Hunter Valley town of Maitland. For Jim, marriage represents companionship, stability and family. For Ellie it is more complicated: how to be wife, mother and professional sculptor in mid-twentieth-century regional Australia. That she succeeds is due to determination and a belief in her talent but at story's end she must truly fashion her own identity."--Back cover.

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    • Manly, Manly - Allambie - Curl Curl area, Sydney Northeastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Susan Steggall , 2024 .
      Extent: 375p.
      ISBN: 9780987494443
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  • Maitland, Maitland area, Hunter Valley, Newcastle - Hunter Valley area, New South Wales,
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