A Distant Prospect – ISBN 9780987435101

Themes

dolphin salt shaker — Dr Annette Young delivered a version of this text as a dinner speech for the Association of Australian Women Graduates at The Newcastle Club on 26 August 2015. In the course of writing fiction, there comes a point when your story metamorphoses from being simply a story to being a […]

Inspired by motherhood: life, literature, and plastic dolphins

October 17, 2015 in Annette / Events / Motherhood / Writing by annette

Diverse examples of a mother’s love play an important role in A Distant Prospect. Della Sotheby’s socialite mother seems to say some clumsy or unfeeling things, but we discover another side of her in the unselfish choices she made for her children during the war, and all of her inner […]

Mothers and daughters in A Distant Prospect

May 31, 2015 in Characters / Motherhood / Mrs Epstein by francis

Annette is delighted that Denver-based Sonlight Curriculum, which is celebrating its 25th year in 2015, has selected A Distant Prospect as one of its Summer Reader choices. She is especially pleased by the way in which Jonelle brings out the carefully woven inter-generational themes in her video review below. Thank […]

“A book my Mom and I couldn’t put down.” – ...

May 30, 2015 in Reviews / Suffering / Video by francis

Click to visit Peter's Etsy shop — Peter Brandt expertly hand copies your photographs onto calico, in pastel and charcoal. Last week, I posted Annette’s photo on Facebook for her birthday. The next day, Peter surprised us with this beautiful copy! As Peter says on his website, “Send me a photo and I’ll draw it for you! […]

Amazing portraits in pastel and charcoal by Peter Brandt!

August 29, 2014 in Art by francis

Lucy’s leg callipers gave this Great War veteran an opening for the black humour that helped him cope with his lost mobility. ‘I got mine at Bellicourt. Where’d you get yours?’ he asked me when I shook his hand, and he indicated my legs with a raise of an eyebrow […]

Music for war veterans

August 3, 2014 in Mrs Epstein / Music / North Sydney / Suffering / War by francis

Premature judgement

July 10, 2014 in Lucy Straughan / Premature Judgement / Suffering / Themes by francis

Welcome to readers of Annals Australasia, which featured Dr Susan Moore’s erudite book review of A Distant Prospect at page 15 of the June 2014 issue. A few snippets: “I’d no idea that she’d write a memorable Australian work of fiction. Yet if there has been a more brilliant novel […]

Annals Australasia – Suffering and its Aftermath by Susan Reibel ...

June 26, 2014 in Reviews / Suffering by francis

Oh, to get inside that tabernacle!

April 19, 2014 in Prayers / Suffering by francis

New Year’s Day, 1929: ‘Well, as my Da’s said to me many a time, … you can only learn to walk by walking.’ – A Distant Prospect, Ch. 57. Imitating the best aspects of a life well-lived is a good way to a fulfilling and happy life. Wishing all of […]