Description |
295 pages ; 24 cm |
Summary |
'Mina, a writer, is navigating her place in the world, balancing creativity, academia, her sexuality and the expectation that a wife and mother abandons herself for others. For her, like so many women of mixed ancestry, it is too easy to be erased. But her fire and intellect refuse to bow. She discovers 'the dark, adorable' Eurasian woman Daisy Simmons, whom Peter Walsh plans to marry in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway. Daisy disappeared from Woolf's pages, her story unfinished - never given a voice in the novel, nor a footnote in any of the admiring Woolf scholarship that followed. While dealing with the remains of another life, Mina decides to write Daisy's story. Travelling from Australia to England, India and China, freelancing and researching, she has to navigate cultural and race barriers, trying hard not to look back or flinch at the personal cost. Like Woolf, her writing both sustains and overwhelms her. But in releasing Daisy from her fictional destiny, Mina finds the stubbornness and strength to also break free". -- Back cover |
Analysis |
AUS fiction (New South Wales) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographic references |
Subject |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Characters -- Fiction
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. Mrs. Dalloway -- Fiction
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Characters -- Fiction
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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941 -- Characters -- Fiction
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SUBJECT |
Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. fast |
Subject |
Writers -- Fiction
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Australian fiction
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Race relations -- Fiction
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Women -- Psychology -- Fiction
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Self-realization in women -- Fiction
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Racially mixed people -- Fiction
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Authorship -- Fiction
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Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction
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Women -- Fiction
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction
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Characters in literature -- Fiction
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Women authors -- Fiction
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Authors -- Fiction
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Authors.
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Authorship.
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Characters and characteristics.
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Characters and characteristics in literature.
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Racially mixed people.
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Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.
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Self-realization in women.
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Women.
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Women authors.
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Australian fiction.
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Reading List |
ALL202 prescribed text 2024
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Genre/Form |
Australian fiction
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Fiction.
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Social problem fiction.
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Australian fiction
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Australian fiction
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Australian fiction
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Psychological fiction.
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ISBN |
9780733645211 |
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