Dorothy Porter

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• Wild Surmise

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2003 · Shortlist

  Wild Surmise

  Wild Surmise

  Dorothy Porter · 48 when first published

  Novel · 293 pages · Love

  AIAI-generated summary:An astronomer who looks for life on frozen moons has grown distant from her dying husband, and then Phoebe, a cool and self-assured woman from her past, comes back into her world.

• What a Piece of Work

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2000 · Shortlist

  What a Piece of Work

  What a Piece of Work

  Dorothy Porter · 45 when first published

  Novel · 276 pages

  AIAI-generated summary:In late-1960s Sydney, the psychiatrist Peter Cyren, new superintendent of the Callan Park mental hospital, tells in verse of his efforts to cure the minds in his care, and of a life that goes from bad to far worse.