Springtime

Alternate Titles

• Spring time

Description

Frances is haunted by the unknowability of her husband's previous life and as she walks around her neighborhood to clear her head she sees a garden that seems to be suspended in time.

Description

"Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still." When Frances met Charlie at a party in Melbourne he was married with a young son. Now she and Charlie live in Sydney with her rescue dog Rod and an unshakeable sense that they have tipped the world on its axis. They are still getting their bearings - of each other and of their adopted city. Everything is alien, unfamiliar, exotic: haunting, even. Worlds of meaning spin out of perfectly chosen words in this rare, beguiling and brilliant ghost story by Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning writer Michelle de Kretser.

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Other Editions

• Springtime: a ghost storyAllen & Unwin2014-01-01
• Springtime2014-01-01
• SpringtimeCatapult2016-01-01