The Life to Come

In Sydney, Pippa is determined to make her name as a novelist, while George, her old professor, avoids the people who idolise him. In Paris, Celeste earns her living translating and convinces herself that her married lover feels as she does. Cassie falls for Ash, who trades on his boyhood in Sri Lanka but buries a tragedy from those years, and over several decades Christabel and Bunty, friends since their Sri Lankan childhood, make a modest life together in Australia. Ranging across countries and generations, these loosely joined stories look at migration, the writing of fiction, intimacy and solitude, and how little we understand other people.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Migration (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, France, Sri Lanka

First published

2017

Author's age

60 when first published

ISBN

9781760296568 (Allen & Unwin, Australia)

9781936787821 (Catapult, United States)

9781760296711 (Allen & Unwin, Australia)

9781948226158 (Catapult, United States)

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