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Issue Details: First known date: 2006... 2006 Beyond the Break
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A city, a time, a love, so vividly and unerringly described you can smell the frangipani and taste the sea breeze. - Robert Drewe Steph, an Australian journalist living in New York, is devastated by the sudden death of Annie, who has been her closest friend since their shared childhood in the Sydney seaside suburb of Coogee 50 years ago. Returning to Australia at the height of a summer heatwave, Steph tries to account for the reasons behind Annie's death. At the same time, she renews her relationship with the man once loved by both friends, finding herself confronted by questions of family, friendship, and fundamental rivalries never properly resolved or even acknowledged. In a wonderfully bittersweet tale of female friendship, lost loves, mothers and daughters, and the secrets that can unfurl within families, Hall explores the past and the surprises it can reveal to haunting effect. Evoking suburban Sydney of the 1950s with astonishing clarity, Hall also recreates the opportunistic mood of 1980s Australia, in which Steph struggles to deal with conflicts she thought she had long since left behind.

Notes

  • Dedication: for James.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Pymble, Turramurra - Pymble - St Ives area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Fourth Estate , 2006 .
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      ISBN: 073228242X

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Works about this Work

Ages of Rage Anne Susskind , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 2 May vol. 124 no. 6518 2006; (p. 68)

— Review of Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel ; Pictures of Us Todd Alexander , 2006 single work novel ; Out of Place Jo Dutton , 2006 single work novel ; Shadowboxing Tony Birch , 2006 selected work short story
Forget the Blokes Shirley Walker , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 281 2006; (p. 36-37)

— Review of Out of Place Jo Dutton , 2006 single work novel ; Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Characters Who Fade Away Juliette Hughes , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 30 April 2006; (p. 17)

— Review of Gossip : A Novel Ros Reines , 2006 single work novel ; Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Going Beyond the Break to Create a Novel of More Innocent Days Helen Elliott , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 April 2006; (p. 12-13)

— Review of Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Tangles Lives and Broken Dreams Stephen Bell , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 1 April 2006; (p. 8)

— Review of Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Vibrant Sydney Party Girl Steals the Show Kerryn Goldsworthy , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 February 2006; (p. 12)

— Review of Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Friendship Stuck in Still Waters Bronwyn Rivers , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 March 2006; (p. 26)

— Review of Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Tangles Lives and Broken Dreams Stephen Bell , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 1 April 2006; (p. 8)

— Review of Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Going Beyond the Break to Create a Novel of More Innocent Days Helen Elliott , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 8 April 2006; (p. 12-13)

— Review of Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Characters Who Fade Away Juliette Hughes , 2006 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 30 April 2006; (p. 17)

— Review of Gossip : A Novel Ros Reines , 2006 single work novel ; Beyond the Break Sandra Hall , 2006 single work novel
Double Exposure : Sandra Hall, Journalist/Author Chris Beck , 2006 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 18 March 2006; (p. 10)
Last amended 4 Feb 2025 14:28:35
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Coogee, Randwick area, Sydney Eastern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,
  • New York (City), New York (State),
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    United States of America (USA),
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    Americas,
  • 1950s
  • 1980s
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