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Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Happy Families
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

'Happy families are not always conventional. Conventional families are not always happy. A panorama in miniature of contemporary'Australian life in which different worlds connect and collide: city and country, 'old' Europe and 'new' Australia, black and white Australians and male and female values.

'A warm and compelling novel about women's lives, the past and its secrets and the different shapes families can take.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Epigraph: What else should our lives be but a series of beginnings, of painful settings out into the unknown, pushing off from the edges of unconsciousness into the mystery of what we have not yet become. - David Malouf.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.

Works about this Work

Families: Fact or Fiction? Susan Varga , 1999 single work essay
— Appears in: The Sydney Papers , vol. 11 no. 4 1999; (p. 19-29)
When Love Comes by Accident Marion Halligan , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 September 1999; (p. 8)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
The Tectonics of Family Terri-Ann White , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 212 1999; (p. 22)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
Books in Brief Debra Adelaide , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , July vol. 4 no. 6 1999; (p. 26)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
Family Romance in Unfamiliar Fashion Michelle De Kretser , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 June 1999; (p. 9)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
Strength of Women Katharine England , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 5 June 1999; (p. 21)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
Family Romance in Unfamiliar Fashion Michelle De Kretser , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 19 June 1999; (p. 9)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
Books in Brief Debra Adelaide , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , July vol. 4 no. 6 1999; (p. 26)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
The Tectonics of Family Terri-Ann White , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 212 1999; (p. 22)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
When Love Comes by Accident Marion Halligan , 1999 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 11 September 1999; (p. 8)

— Review of Happy Families Susan Varga , 1999 single work novel
Families: Fact or Fiction? Susan Varga , 1999 single work essay
— Appears in: The Sydney Papers , vol. 11 no. 4 1999; (p. 19-29)

Awards

2000 winner Vision Australia Foundation Audio Book Awards Adult Audio Book of the Year Also winner, Adult Narrator of the Year (Helen Morse) who read the story.
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