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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Swan's Egg
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'When I was a little girl, I hurt my arm and my mother took me to a different doctor, one I’d never been to before. He called me an ugly duckling. My mother laughed when he said it but I didn’t mind. Just as long as I had been hatched from a swan’s egg. Because, then, eventually, I would turn into a swan and nothing else would matter.'

This is seventeen-year-old Ruth's story of her determination to find a place for herself in a world very different from the one she had imagined as a child.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Epigraph: 'he saw beneath him his own form, no longer that of a plump ugly grey bird - it was that of a swan.

    It matters not to have been born in a duck yard, if one has been hatched from a swan's egg. – Hans Christian Andersen, 'The Ugly Duckling'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,: Ginninderra Press , 2014 .
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      Cover image courtesy of publisher.
      Extent: 250p.
      ISBN: 9781740278676

Works about this Work

[Review Essay] The Swan's Egg by Zenda Vecchio Ian Keast , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , 134 no. 134 2015; (p. 34)
The Swan's Egg by Zenda Vecchio Patrick Crudden , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Tamba , Summer no. 55 2014; (p. 47)

— Review of The Swan's Egg Zenda Vecchio , 2014 single work novel
'The novel tells Ruth's story from her early chldhood through to her first class in Law School at University...'
Review : The Swan's Egg Julie Lucas , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Polestar , no. 27 2014; (p. 59-60)

— Review of The Swan's Egg Zenda Vecchio , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Swan's Egg Julie Lucas , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Polestar , no. 27 2014; (p. 59-60)

— Review of The Swan's Egg Zenda Vecchio , 2014 single work novel
The Swan's Egg by Zenda Vecchio Patrick Crudden , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Tamba , Summer no. 55 2014; (p. 47)

— Review of The Swan's Egg Zenda Vecchio , 2014 single work novel
'The novel tells Ruth's story from her early chldhood through to her first class in Law School at University...'
[Review Essay] The Swan's Egg by Zenda Vecchio Ian Keast , 2015 single work essay
— Appears in: Studio : A Journal of Christians Writing , 134 no. 134 2015; (p. 34)
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