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Digging to Australia (Paperback)

by Lesley Glaister (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Minerva; New edition edition (16 Aug 1993)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0749398647
  • ISBN-13: 978-0749398644
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 1,888,089 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'An outstanding novel with confirms Glaister's command of the domestic and the bizarre' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

The Times

'Glaister's novels always appear to be as effortless for her to writer as they are for us to read' --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Evocative, poignant and excitingly twisted., 20 Nov 1999
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This review is from: Digging to Australia (Paperback)
This was my first lesley Glaister novel and I was unprepared for the marvellous, easy style of her honeyed prose. Evocations of England in the late 1950's combined with a disparate cast of characters make this a charming book of humour, poignancy and bleak reality. I am now preparing to read everything else she has ever written!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars An Off-beat but excellent read, 12 Dec 2003
This review is from: Digging to Australia (Hardcover)
In 'Digging to Australia' a traumatic year in the life of 13 year old Jennifer unfolds through her own eyes. She grapples with the ususal teenage stuff of awakening independence, sexuality and dread of unpopularity. In her case these are compounded by the shock of discovering the truth about her unconventional family and beng drawn towards a strange loner.

The unprepossessing setting for this is the suburbs of the late 1960's. Although this world of Jennifer's is circumscribed, it is vividly real. We are drawn into its curious events and Jennifer's intense emotional life. Glaister captures with real accuracy the teenager's perspective -the disturbing sense of having new and sometimes far from innocent feelings and that of the things now happening seeming overwhelmingly important.

'Digging to Australia' is subtle. The ambiguities in its ending -with questions surrounding a disturbing final plot twist left unanswered -suggests a possibility that the events of adolescence, so cataclysmic at the time, may turn out to be less so in retrospect.

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Rather wonderful and a little weird, 28 Jun 2003
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This review is from: Digging to Australia (Paperback)
I've read a couple of Lesley Glaister's books before this, and I've enjoyed them all. The author seems to excel in describing the strangeness and cruelty of getting old; however, this only serves to make her novels seem all the more chilling. In no way can this be described as a horror story, but whilst reading it, you become filled with a kind of absurd dread, not quite knowing where the story is leading to. As in her other novels, this one is an angle on the truth, whether you want to admit to it or not!
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3.0 out of 5 stars A bitter-sweet narrative in believable female first person.
An authentic adolescent voice and emotions in an unusual domestic situation. This is the first work I have read by Glaister and I will read another of her imaginative novels.
Published on 7 July 1999

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