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Issue Details: First known date: 2016... 2016 Wedding Bush Road
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'When he learns of his mother’s ailing health, Daniel Rawson must leave Los Angeles and travel half a world away to the family’s horse farm on Wedding Bush Road, one hundred miles outside of Melbourne. Estranged from his parents, Daniel is hesitant to revisit their history: long divorced, his mother still maintains the farm having put out her cheating, rakish husband, and even in these later years her anger burns brightly.'

'Daniel arrives at the farm in the heat of his parents’ conflict with Sharen, an alluring tenant and ex-lover of his father now perched on family land. Sharen and her unstable son Reggie complicate an already difficult family dynamic while Daniel has to tend to his mother’s condition, his father’s contentious behavior, and the swell of memory that strikes whenever he visits the farm. As Daniel is increasingly drawn to Sharen, the various tensions across the farm will spark events that cannot help but change them all.'

'With a keen eye for the rugged and beautiful Australian landscape, infused with aboriginal [sic] history, and set against the workings of a rural horse farm, Wedding Bush Road is a stunning novel about the choices we make, the regrets that linger, and the unquestionable, inevitable pull of home.' (Source: Counterpoint Press website)

Notes

  • Dedication: For Judy Francis (1923-2008)
  • Epigraph: And I hear the far-off fields say things I cannot bear without a friend. –Rilke

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Berkeley, California,
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      Counterpoint Press ,
      2016 .
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      Extent: 304p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 8 November 2016
      ISBN: 9781619027879 (pbk)
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Brio Books , 2016 .
      image of person or book cover 5637299627325882216.jpg
      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 288p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published November 2016.

      ISBN: 9781925143348, 9781925143331

Works about this Work

Gippsland Bound Fiona Gruber , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 389 2017; (p. 35)
Wedding Bush Road is a novel about contrasts and conflicts: new-age America versus an old-fashioned Australia; messy rural versus shipshape urban; high status versus low; the past versus the present.’ (Introduction)
Gippsland Bound Fiona Gruber , 2017 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , March no. 389 2017; (p. 35)
Wedding Bush Road is a novel about contrasts and conflicts: new-age America versus an old-fashioned Australia; messy rural versus shipshape urban; high status versus low; the past versus the present.’ (Introduction)
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    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
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