Fish Lips Trilogy series - author   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2001-... 2001- Fish Lips Trilogy
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The Fish Lips trilogy, set in Malaysia and Australia from the 1940s to the 21st century, looks at three angles on love: heterosexual, homosexual and tortured. (Publisher blurb)

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y separately published work icon Fish Lips Carolyn Van Langenberg , Briar Hill : Indra Publishing , 2001 Z915869 2001 single work novel In Fish Lips, Rose, Li-tsieng's paramour, becomes a ghost when the Japanese bombed Penang in 1941. Was she ever real? (Publisher blurb)
y separately published work icon The Teetotaller's Wake Carolyn Van Langenberg , Briar Hill : Indra Publishing , 2003 Z1023401 2003 single work novel Fiona Hindmarsh, a successful middle-aged economist, likes to live her life her way. Beginning the love-of-her-life affair with the gorgeous Laine Macready, a girl who wears a Hardie Aimes shirt like no one else can, she is interrupted by a phone call. Her sister, Gillian, brings her the news that their mother, Muriel, had a heart attack at the top of a plum tree she was pruning and died. Irritably Fi sets off on a night-time drive home to help Gillian organise the funeral.

What precisely is home for Fi? Where her mother lived in Northern New South Wales, among the tea-drinking relatives who, as Gillian reminds her, made Fi what she is today? Is home the girl of the moment who happens to make her heart miss a beat? Or is home merely one of the houses Fi has bought in Australia or leased in Bali? Fi is contrary, her head and her heart responding to different music. And as a child, Fi was sensitive to the ghostly spirits of the Bundjalung who inhabited the land the Hindmarshes and the Darks took over for dairy farms. How does she reconcile the mutterings and wailings and chantings she hears in her heart with the classic cinema sound booming in her head and the skin-smarting indignity of betrayal?

A novel combining a love story with a perspective on the farmers' settlement history of the Far North Coast of New South Wales, that grew with new grass on old rainforest soil. (Publisher blurb)

y separately published work icon Blue Moon Carolyn Van Langenberg , Briar Hill : Indra Publishing , 2004 Z1161397 2004 single work novel

In Blue Moon, urban conservationist Badul Mukhapadai tries to save Penang, Malaysia, from developers and falls in love with the clean air of Byron Bay, Australia, where he consummates his passion for the prickly historian, Gillian Hindmarsh. (Publisher blurb)

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[Review] Fish Lips Trilogy Zora Simic , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , June no. 34 2005;

— Review of Fish Lips Trilogy Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001- series - author novel
[Review] Fish Lips Trilogy Zora Simic , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: JAS Review of Books , June no. 34 2005;

— Review of Fish Lips Trilogy Carolyn Van Langenberg , 2001- series - author novel
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