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Sleepless in Stringybark Bay by Susan Duncan
Reviewed by Wendy Lipke
When I first read the title of this book I wondered if it would be like an Australian version of the movie, Sleepless in Seattle, with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks. This book by Australian writer, Susan Duncan, is nothing like that story.
Susan Duncan has had tragedy to face in her life which she has dealt with by publishing two bestselling memoirs, Salvation Creek and its sequel The House at Salvation Creek. She has now turned her hand to writing fiction which she locates in an area like the one which she knows well, Pittwater, NSW. Readers of her earlier stories, The Briny Café and Gone Fishing, will have already met some of the characters in this new book and been introduced to the supportive, friendly people who choose to live a simple life on the bay or the island offshore.
In this latest story, Sam Scully, a simple man at one with the sea, plays a prominent role. He plies his barge, the Mary Kay, to all areas around the bay and nearby island delivering goods. His first mate Jimmy is a simple, colourful, lovable character who voices some of the basic tenets for a good life. Each night the barge is tethered near the Briny Café, the centre of all that goes on in this closeknit community.
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Returning to Cook&#;s Basin rule Susan Duncan
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Program: Susan Duncan: stories, secrets and a study in reinvention
At forty-four, Susan's successful media career, writing for and editing top-selling women's magazines including The Australian Women's Weekly, was front and centre of her life.
The appeal of all that fell away when, within days, she suffered the loss of her brother, and then, her first husband.
Susan dismantled her life, and over time, made a new one in a tiny, waterside village, in Sydney's Pittwater.
Since then, several reinventions have seen her survive cancer, and find enduring love.
Susan's written a number of bestselling memoirs featuring candid portraits of the people and landscape of Pittwater.
Now in her sixties, she's relocated to a bush block in NSW and claims keeping the weeds down with her tractor brings deep satisfaction.
This year Susan found the courage to confront her elderly mother about an ugly, long-buried family secret.
* Please note the latter part of this conversation contains distressing subject matter and may disturb survivors of sexual abuse *
Further information
The House on the Hill is published by Random House
Susan's previous books are Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek
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