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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 Springtime : A Ghost Story
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'Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still.

'When Frances met Charlie at a party in Melbourne he was married with a young son.

'Now she and Charlie live in Sydney with her rescue dog Rod and an unshakeable sense that they have tipped the world on its axis. They are still getting their bearings - of each other and of their adopted city. Everything is alien, unfamiliar, exotic: haunting, even.

'Worlds of meaning spin out of perfectly chosen words in this rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story by Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning writer Michelle de Kretser.' (Publication summary)

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Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2014 .
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      Extent: 92p.
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      • Published November 2014
      ISBN: 9781760111212
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Catapult Press ,
      2016 .
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      Extent: 85p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 12th April 2016
      ISBN: 9781936787432
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2019 .
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      Extent: 1v.p.
      Reprinted: 2020 (paperback)
      ISBN: 9781760876708, 9781760876708 (pbk)

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Works about this Work

Alexandra Watkins Interviews Michelle de Kretser on ‘Springtime’ Alexandra Watkins (interviewer), 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , September no. 19 2016;
Michelle de Kretser, Springtime Jorge Salavert , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 7 no. 2 2015;

— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
A Ghost Story Francesca Sasnaitis , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 368 2015; (p. 57)

— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
Lip Lit: Springtime : A Ghost Story Margot McGovern , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Lip Magazine 2015;

— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
Get Shorty Blanche Clark , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-mail , 29 November 2014; (p. 10)

— Review of The Turning Tim Winton , 2004 selected work short story ; Merciless Gods Christos Tsiolkas , 2014 selected work short story ; Australia's Best Unknown Stories : And Tales You Thought You Knew Jim Haynes , 2014 anthology short story ; Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
'Short stories have a long life ahead of them...'
Michelle De Kretser : Springtime : A Ghost Story Lou Murphy , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2014;

— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
Bringing Ghost Stories Back to Life James Bradley , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 November 2014; (p. 18)

— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
Get Shorty Blanche Clark , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-mail , 29 November 2014; (p. 10)

— Review of The Turning Tim Winton , 2004 selected work short story ; Merciless Gods Christos Tsiolkas , 2014 selected work short story ; Australia's Best Unknown Stories : And Tales You Thought You Knew Jim Haynes , 2014 anthology short story ; Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
'Short stories have a long life ahead of them...'
A Ghost Story Francesca Sasnaitis , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January-February no. 368 2015; (p. 57)

— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
Michelle de Kretser, Springtime Jorge Salavert , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Transnational Literature , May vol. 7 no. 2 2015;

— Review of Springtime : A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser , 2014 single work novel
Alexandra Watkins Interviews Michelle de Kretser on ‘Springtime’ Alexandra Watkins (interviewer), 2016 single work interview
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , September no. 19 2016;
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