000 02219cam a22003017i 4500
001 15649059
003 OSt
005 20140911134554.0
008 140605s2014 xna e 000 0 eng
020 _a9781742752440 (paperback)
020 _a1742752446 (paperback)
035 _a(OCoLC)889856738
035 _a(OCoLC)ocn889856738
040 _aAU@
_beng
_cAU@
_erda
_dNz
042 _aanuc
082 0 4 _a306.84
100 1 _aMacKellar, Maggie,
_d1973-,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHow to get there :
_ba memoir /
_cMaggie Mackellar.
260 _aNorth Sydney, N.S.W. :
_bA Vintage Book published by Random House Australia,
_c2014.
300 _axii, 243 pages ;
_c23 cm.
520 _aAfter Maggie Mackellar's acclaimed When It Rains, her second memoir traces with her characteristic candour and perception her move to Tasmania, for love, and the struggles and joys of settling there. In 2011 Maggie Mackellar moved from her family's farm in Central West New South Wales to the east coast of Tasmania with her children and assorted menagerie to live with a farmer. Her story takes as its epigraph a quote from Roger McDonald: 'Through every small opening in life, through the tiniest most restricted nerve ends, through rips and tears and tatters, life pours.' In the book she explores learning to love again after living through grief, and the complexities of doing this in a community with which she is unfamiliar, with two young children. She reflects on love after grief, juggling being a mother and negotiating a burgeoning relationship, the rhythms of country life, displacement and the writing life. This is a book for anyone who has imagined taking a risk, for anyone who has moved to a new place and struggled with feelings of homesickness and displacement. It is a story about making a life in a remarkable setting-the east coast of Tasmania, on a sheep farm in a stone house built by convicts in 1828.
600 1 0 _aMacKellar, Maggie,
_d1973-
650 0 _aRemarried people
_zAustralia
_zTasmania
_vBiography.
650 0 _aStepfamilies
_zAustralia
_zTasmania
_vBiography.
650 0 _aSocial adjustment
_zAustralia
_zTasmania.
650 0 _aMoving, Household
_zAustralia
_zTasmania.
942 _2ddc
_cNONFIC
999 _c32767
_d32767