To Carve Identity
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To Carve Identity

by Susan SteggallPublish: Mar 11, 2024

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Novels traditionally end with a ‘happily ever after’. To carve identity begins with a ‘happily into the future’.
In 1949 Ellie Gilmartin returned to her native Glasgow after travelling to Australia to learn the truth about her parents’ tragic lives (The heritage you leave behind, 2021). If her professional career as a scul... ptor was progressing nicely, her private life was in limbo as she reflected on her long-distance relationship with solicitor Jim Blackwood. Fortune smiled on Ellie. Jim came looking for her and so their future began.
The novel follows these two very different people as they negotiate married life – first in London, then in the NSW Hunter Valley town of Maitland. For Jim, marriage represents companionship, stability and family. For Ellie it is more complicated: how to be wife, mother and professional sculptor in mid-twentieth-century regional Australia. That she succeeds is due to determination and a belief in her talent but at story’s end she must truly fashion her own identity. read more

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BIOGRAPHY
Susan Steggall is a writer and an art historian with a PhD in Creative Writing allied to a Master's and a Bachelor’s Degree in Art History and Theory. Publications include: a memoir of a decade in France, Alpine Beach: a Family Adventure (1999); three novels, Forget Me Not (2006), It Happened Tomorrow (2013) and ‘Tis... the Doing Not the Deed (2019), The Heritage You Leave Behind (2021) and To Carve Identity (2024), plus art-related articles, exhibition and book reviews, and book chapters. She has edited anthologies for the Society of Women Writers NSW Inc. and was editor of the ISAA Review (the journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc) from 2010 to 2015. She taught courses in Approaches to Australian Art, Writing Art and Design, Audiences for Art at the University of NSW. Her biography of art historian Joan Kerr, A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr, Art and Architectural Historian, was a winner in the Non-Fiction section of the 2013 Society of Women Writers NSW Inc.'s Biennial Book Awards. read more

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Book Detail
Title To Carve Identity
Author Susan Steggall
ASIN B0CW1HG95Q
Publish Date 11, Mar 2024
Language English
Page Count 416
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