Springtime A Ghost Story Michelle De Kretser by Michelle De Kretser 9781936787449, 193678744X instant download after payment.

When Frances met Charlie at a party in Melbourne, he was married with a young son. Now that the couple has moved to subtropical Sydney, a lusher & more chaotic city, Frances has an unshakable sense that the world has tipped on its axis. Everything seems alien, & exotic—& Frances is haunted by the unknowability of Charlie's previous life. 

A young art historian studying the objects in paintings––the material world––Frances takes mind–clearing walks around her neighborhood with her dog. Behind the fence of one garden, she thinks she sees a woman in an old–fashioned gown, but something is not right. It's as if the garden exists in a vacuum suspended in time, "at an angle to life." 

Springtime is a ghost story that doesn't conform to the genre's traditions of dark & stormy nights, graveyards & ruins. It breaks new ground by unfolding in sunny, suburban Australia, & the realism of the characters & events make the story's ambiguities & eeriness all the more disquieting. The richness of observation here is immediately recognizable as Michelle de Kretser's, a writer who has been praised by Hilary Mantel as a master of ""the sharp, almost hallucinatory detail."

Michelle de Kretser was born in Sri Lanka & emigrated to Australia when she was 14. Educated in Melbourne & Paris, Michelle has worked as a university tutor, an editor & a book reviewer. She is the author of The Rose Grower, The Hamilton Case, which won the Commonwealth Prize (SE Asia & Pacific region) & the UK Encore Prize, & The Lost Dog, which won a swag of awards, including the 2008 NSW Premier's Book of the Year Award…