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After Story by Larissa Behrendt is a compelling exploration of the bond between a mother and daughter who embark on a literary tour of England. As they visit sites connected with famous authors, they confront family secrets and unresolved trauma, seeking to understand their shared and individual pasts. This journey of healing and discovery deepens their relationship, set against a backdrop of literary history and cultural dislocation.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate deep emotional narratives exploring family bonds and reconciliation. It deftly intertwines a daughter's perspective with broader cultural and historical themes, offering rich insights into identity and belonging. This poignant tale may appeal to those who seek stories of connection and personal discovery amidst the complexities of life.

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When a mother and daughter take the overseas trip of a lifetime, they discover that the past is never quite behind them.

When Indigenous lawyer Jasmine decides to take her mother, Della, on a tour of England's most revered literary sites, Jasmine hopes it will bring them closer together and help them reconcile the past.

Twenty-five years earlier, the disappearance of Jasmine's older sister devastated their tight-knit community. This tragedy returns to haunt Jasmine and Della when another child mysteriously goes missing on Hampstead Heath. As Jasmine immerses herself in the world of her literary idols - including Jane Austen, the BrontΓ« sisters, and Virginia Woolf - Della is inspired to rediscover the wisdom of her own culture and storytelling. But sometimes the stories that are not told can become too great to bear.

Ambitious and engrossing, After Story celebrates the extraordinary power of words and the quiet spaces between. We can be ready to listen, but are we ready to hear?

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780702265808

Publisher: University of Queensland Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 August 2022

Country: Australia

Imprint: University of Queensland Press

Edition: 2nd ed.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 290g

Pages: 320

About the Author

Larissa is the author of three novels- Home, which won the 2002 David Unaipon Award and the regional Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book; Legacy, which won the 2010 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing; and After Story. She has published numerous books on Indigenous legal issues; her most recent non-fiction book is Finding Eliza- Power and Colonial Storytelling. She was awarded the 2009 NAIDOC Person of the Year award and 2011 NSW Australian of the Year. Larissa wrote and directed the feature films, After the Apology and Innocence Betrayed and has written and produced several short films. In 2018 she won the Australian Directors' Guild Award for Best Direction in a Documentary Feature and in 2020 the AACTA for Best Direction in Nonfiction Television. She is the host of Speaking Out on ABC radio and is Distinguished Professor at the Jumbunna Institute at the University of Technology Sydney. After Story has been shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards, the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the ABA Booksellers' Choice Awards, and longlisted for the Indie Book Awards, the Australian Book Industry Awards and the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

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