![]() ![]() Mid-way through I began to wonder if it was ever going to end. Indeed, the story is a chronicle of grief and anxiety, betrayal and strained relations - and that’s just the troubled patients that Ester listens to day in, day out in her therapy room her own family has its own problematic, complicated past, and her ex-husband is in crisis having twiddled the numbers in his lucrative job as a pollster. ![]() The emotion is restrained, almost aloof, in this novel Blain is careful to keep things in check, yet it’s full of dramatic moments. This sounds melodramatic, right? It’s not. Ester is also estranged from Lawrence, the father of her children - twin daughters Catherine and Laura - but is close to her mother, Hilary, a widowed film maker, who has decided not to tell her children she’s dying of a brain tumour. It’s largely told from the viewpoint of Ester, a therapist, who is estranged from her older sister, April, a one-time pop star who has lost her mojo. The author died in December 2016, just a few days before her mother, the broadcaster (and “Omo lady”) Anne Deveson, passed away.Ī domestic novel set in Sydney on a single rainy day, it is undercut with a back story (told flashback style) set three years earlier. ![]() The late Georgia Blain’s last novel, Between a Wolf and a Dog, has been shortlisted for the 2017 Stella Prize. Fiction – paperback Scribe UK 272 pages 2016. ![]()
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