Lovesong

Ken, a retired writer, has come home to Melbourne from Venice, restless and melancholy, and is struck by the sadness in the eyes of Sabiha, the Tunisian woman at a new patisserie nearby. Her husband, John Patterner, begins to confide in him. Years earlier John, a young Australian lost in Paris, sheltered from a storm in Chez Dom, a rundown café on the city's edge kept by Sabiha's widowed aunt Houria for North African workers from the abattoirs. He fell for the niece who served him, and they married: two cultures living in a third. But homesickness, childlessness and the distance between them set off events that will change both their lives.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Love, Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, France

First published

2009

Author's age

73 when first published

ISBN

9781742371290 (Allen & Unwin, Australia)

9781554688036 (HarperCollins Publishers, Canada)

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