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Issue Details: First known date: 2013... 2013 The Memory Trap
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'The past feeds into the present and often undermines it in this story about marriage, memory and mistakes that can never be forgiven. It features Nina, a memorial consultant and her futurologist husband Daniel: her sister Zoe, a music teacher and Zoe's biographer husband, American ex-alcoholic Elliot. And lastly, there is Ramsay Blake, a genius at the piano but a half-baked human being in every other respect. All the relationships are on shaky ground. As for memory and forgiveness are less reliable than what we would like to think.' (Source: Author's website: http://andreagoldsmith.com.au/the-memory-trap/ )

Notes

  • Dedication: for Jacqueline Eve Goldsmith
  • Epigraph:

    'Darkly rises each moment from life

    which has been lived and which does not die,

    for each event lives in the heavy head forever,

    waiting to renew itself.

    -Delmore Schwartz

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2013 .
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      Extent: 344p.
      Note/s:
      • Publication date: May 2013
      ISBN: 9780732296728 (pbk.)

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Braille.

Works about this Work

Memory, Marriage, and Music : An Interview with Andrea Goldsmith Nigel Featherstone (interviewer), 2013 single work interview
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2013;
Andrea Goldsmith on Memory Jan McGuinness , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 351 2013;

— Review of The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
Cairo, Melbourne (Two Novels: One beautiful, One an Instant Classic) Jim Morgan , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Crikey , September 2013;

— Review of Cairo Chris Womersley , 2013 single work novel ; The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
'Jim Morgan is entertained by two fine new novels set in Melbourne: ‘The Memory Trap’ and ‘Cairo’, and wonders if “a man’s worth is measured by his ability to stake a fence.”'
A Collection of Recollections Peter Pierce , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 22-23 July 2013; (p. 27) The Age , 27 July 2013; The Canberra Times , 27 July 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
Andrea Goldsmith : The Memory Trap Kylie Mason , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2013;

— Review of The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
Andrea Goldsmith on Memory Jan McGuinness , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , May no. 351 2013;

— Review of The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
Tricks of the Mind Fran Metcalf , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 25-26 May 2013; (p. 19)

— Review of The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
Insights Come with a Punch Eleanor Limprecht , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 June 2013; (p. 22-23)

— Review of The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
Well Read Katharine England , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 8 June 2013; (p. 28)

— Review of My Beautiful Enemy Cory Taylor , 2013 single work novel ; The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
Andrea Goldsmith : The Memory Trap Kylie Mason , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , July 2013;

— Review of The Memory Trap Andrea Goldsmith , 2013 single work novel
World of Words Jane Sullivan , 2012 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 28-29 December 2012; (p. 22) The Canberra Times , 29 December 2012; (p. 15-16) The Saturday Age , 29 December 2012; (p. 22-23)
Jane Sullivan nominates the best Australian and overseas published books for 2013.
Unaviodable Memories Jason Steger , 2013 single work interview
— Appears in: The Age , 1 June 2013; (p. 28)
Andrea Goldsmith Jason Steger , 2013 single work interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 8-9 June 2013; (p. 30-31) The Canberra Times , 8 June 2013; (p. 19)
'In her latest novel, the author explores the extraordinary power memories have on our imagination, writes Jason Steger.'
Memory, Marriage, and Music : An Interview with Andrea Goldsmith Nigel Featherstone (interviewer), 2013 single work interview
— Appears in: Verity La , September 2013;
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