Amanda Curtin

What does it mean to live a life in pursuit of art? In 1906, Kathleen O'Connor left conservative Perth, where her famous father's life had ended in tragedy. She had her sights set on a career in thrilling, bohemian Paris. More than a century later, novelist Amanda Curtin faces her own questions, of life and of art, as she embarks...

Six Days features a six-day narrative set in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the winter of 2012. This narrative expands into lifetimes and histories as interconnecting stories are woven together—stories of abandonment and fractured families, rape and coercion, addiction, ambition, loss, and grief, all told in moments. Daniel, an expatriate Australian who has lived in Paris for more than...