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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 A Tuesday Thing
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'In The Long Way Home, a secure and idyllic childhood is brought to an abrupt end when Kate's mother dies. Aged four, Kate is placed by her father into the Burnside Presbyterian Home for Children in Pennant Hills, Sydney, along with her two siblings. The young Kate quickly learns to live by the rules of the Home and endure loneliness, loss of self and betrayal.

A Tuesday Thing starts with a young adult Kate striving to be accepted as "normal" among her peers. Lacking the confidence, her dreams and expectations of "ever becoming a member of a real family" seem to evaporate. She starts an early childhood course at university but just as her teaching career brings her joy and new challenges, the dark secrets from her past resurface and Kate must face her demons - particularly the father who robbed her of a childhood but at the same time never stopped loving her...

But all is not doom and gloom as the story ends in triumph, leaving the reader in no doubt that Kate will use her new found strength and knowledge to make wise decisions when the really "big" questions arise.' (Random House Books Australia)

Notes

  • Epigraph: It does not matter how slowly you go, so long as you do not stop. - Confucius
  • Follows on from The Long Way Home.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House , 2004 .
      Extent: 509p.
      ISBN: 1740512685 (pbk.)

Works about this Work

"One of Us” : Orphaned Selves and Legitimacy in Australian Autobiography Jack Bowers , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 29 no. 2 2015; (p. 393-405)
Jack Bowers investigates Australian autobiographies. He examines 'orphaned' selves in which the autobiographer is both orphaned in the sense of not knowing one or both birth parents, and orphaned in the sense of being estranged from a fully formed and completed self.' (393)
Degrees of Exploitation Joy W. Hooton , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 263 2004; (p. 21-22)

— Review of A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler , 2004 single work autobiography ; God's Callgirl : One Woman's Life Journey from Convent to Sex Worker Carla Van Raay , 2004 single work autobiography
Long Road to the Altar Mary Rose Liverani , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 July - 1 August 2004; (p. 14)

— Review of A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler , 2004 single work autobiography
Paperbacks Veronica Sen , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 25 July 2004; (p. 19)

— Review of A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler , 2004 single work autobiography ; The Covenant Charles Inglis , 2004 single work novel ; Dancing with the Hurricane : A Novel Leon Silver , 2004 single work novel
Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 June 2004; (p. 6)

— Review of A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler , 2004 single work autobiography
Memoir Dianne Dempsey , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 5 June 2004; (p. 6)

— Review of A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler , 2004 single work autobiography
Paperbacks Veronica Sen , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 25 July 2004; (p. 19)

— Review of A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler , 2004 single work autobiography ; The Covenant Charles Inglis , 2004 single work novel ; Dancing with the Hurricane : A Novel Leon Silver , 2004 single work novel
Long Road to the Altar Mary Rose Liverani , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 31 July - 1 August 2004; (p. 14)

— Review of A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler , 2004 single work autobiography
Degrees of Exploitation Joy W. Hooton , 2004 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 263 2004; (p. 21-22)

— Review of A Tuesday Thing Kate Shayler , 2004 single work autobiography ; God's Callgirl : One Woman's Life Journey from Convent to Sex Worker Carla Van Raay , 2004 single work autobiography
"One of Us” : Orphaned Selves and Legitimacy in Australian Autobiography Jack Bowers , 2015 single work criticism
— Appears in: Antipodes , December vol. 29 no. 2 2015; (p. 393-405)
Jack Bowers investigates Australian autobiographies. He examines 'orphaned' selves in which the autobiographer is both orphaned in the sense of not knowing one or both birth parents, and orphaned in the sense of being estranged from a fully formed and completed self.' (393)
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