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Issue Details: First known date: 2012... 2012 Playing House
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'Playing House is a rare pleasure a warm and humorous memoir in three parts that subtly reveals what it means to create a family. Firstly working and travelling in Europe, then settling in inner city Melbourne and becoming caregivers to Lydia a troubled teenager who tests the limits of friendship and lastly parenthood and returning to visit family in Hong Kong. At its heart it is a story of an enduring relationship between an Asian-Australian and an Australian.

Elegant and insightful, Playing House makes you realise love can be uncomplicated, and that its often the people you surround yourself with and the blessings in disguise that make life sweet.' (Publisher's blurb)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2012 .
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      Extent: 252p.
      ISBN: 1921924179, 9781921924170

Works about this Work

Memories of Lives Found and Lost Alistair Jones , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 September 2012; (p. 25)

— Review of Staunch : Ward of the State Ginger Briggs , 2012 single work novel ; Playing House Amy Choi , 2012 single work biography ; Get Well Soon! : My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse Kristy Chambers , 2012 single work autobiography
Untitled Caroline Gardam , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 March - 1 April 2012; (p. 23)

— Review of Playing House Amy Choi , 2012 single work biography
Untitled Caroline Gardam , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 31 March - 1 April 2012; (p. 23)

— Review of Playing House Amy Choi , 2012 single work biography
Memories of Lives Found and Lost Alistair Jones , 2012 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-30 September 2012; (p. 25)

— Review of Staunch : Ward of the State Ginger Briggs , 2012 single work novel ; Playing House Amy Choi , 2012 single work biography ; Get Well Soon! : My (Un)Brilliant Career as a Nurse Kristy Chambers , 2012 single work autobiography
Last amended 28 Mar 2017 09:29:08
Subjects:
  • Hong Kong,
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    China,
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    East Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
  • Melbourne, Victoria,
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