Their father’s aunt Hester, spry and recently back in Sydney after half a lifetime in London, came to look after the children until a suitable arrangement could be made. Twenty-three months later, their mother died. WHEN LAURA WAS TWO, the twins decided to kill her. “It is not really possible to describe, in a short space, the originality and depth of this long and beautifully crafted book.” - A.S. Where do these two disparate characters, and an enthralling array of others, truly belong? With her trademark subtlety, wit, and dazzling prose, Michelle de Kretser shows us that, in the 21st century, they belong wherever they want to and can be - home or away. There she meets Ravi, now a Sri Lankan political exile who wants only to see a bit of Australia and make a living. With money from an inheritance, Laura sets off to see the world, eventually returning to Sydney to work for a publisher of travel guides. Ravi Mendis lives on the other side of the globe - exploring the seductive new world of the Internet, his father dead, his mother struggling to get by.Their stories alternate throughout Michelle de Kretser’s ravishing novel, culminating in unlikely fates for them both, destinies influenced by travel - voluntary in her case, enforced in his. Laura Fraser grows up in Sydney, motherless, with a cold, professional father and an artistic bent.
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