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Issue Details: First known date: 1997... 1997 Blood Songs
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Claire Wisdom is a high-profile television journalist and the mother of three. She's popular, successful, respected - in control of her life. But her impeccable public image is about to be brought undone by a change in her brain chemistry, and the onset of manic depression. (Source: back cover)

Notes

  • Dedication: To Jessica, Harriet and Claudia, / whom I have the sublime privilege / of mothering.
  • Epigraph: The trilling wire in the blood / Sings below inveterate scars / And reconciles forgotten wars. / T. S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton'
  • Autobiographical fiction.

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Books in Brief Jan McKemmish , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , November vol. 2 no. 10 1997; (p. 29)
— Review of Blood Songs Penelope Rowe , 1997 single work novel
Bi-Polar Swing Jane Messer , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 194 1997; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Blood Songs Penelope Rowe , 1997 single work novel
Bi-Polar Swing Jane Messer , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 194 1997; (p. 29-30)
— Review of Blood Songs Penelope Rowe , 1997 single work novel
Books in Brief Jan McKemmish , 1997 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian's Review of Books , November vol. 2 no. 10 1997; (p. 29)
— Review of Blood Songs Penelope Rowe , 1997 single work novel
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Last amended 8 Feb 2011 10:08:24
Subjects:
  • Europe,
  • Sydney, New South Wales,
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