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The place on Dalhousie, Melina Marchetta

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The place on Dalhousie, Melina Marchetta
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
fiction
Main title
The place on Dalhousie
Responsibility statement
Melina Marchetta
Summary
When Rosie Gennaro first meets Jimmy Hailler, she has walked away from life in Sydney, leaving behind the place on Dalhousie that her father, Seb, painstakingly rebuilt for his family but never saw completed. Two years later, Rosie returns to the house and living there is Martha, whom Seb Gennaro married less than a year after the death of Rosie's mother. Martha is struggling to fulfil Seb's dream, while Rosie is coming to terms with new responsibilities. And so begins a stand-off between two women who refuse to move out of the home they both lay claim to. As the battle lines are drawn, Jimmy Hailler re-enters Rosie's life. Having always watched other families from the perimeters, he is now grappling, heartbreakingly, with forming one of his own . .
Target audience
adult

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