MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2004381653
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008 040423s2003 at 000 1 eng d
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050 00 $aPR9619.4.V36$bT44 2003
082 00 $a823/.914$222
100 1 $aVan Langenberg, Carolyn.
245 14 $aThe teetotaller's wake /$cby Carolyn van Langenberg.
260 $aBriar Hill, Vic. :$bIndra Publishing,$c2003.
300 $avii, 229 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $aSequel to: Fish lips.
520 1 $a"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 that 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?"--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aSingle women$vFiction.
651 0 $aNew South Wales$vFiction.
650 0 $aLesbians$vFiction.
650 0 $aDreamtime (Australian aboriginal mythology)$vFiction.