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To Carve Identity Kindle Edition

by Susan Steggall (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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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 sculptor 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.
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  1. Print length
    416 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    March 11, 2024
  4. Reading age
    16 - 18 years
  5. File size
    7.4 MB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0CW1HG95Q
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Editions Kusatsu (March 11, 2024)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 11, 2024
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 7.4 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 416 pages
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Susan Steggall

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Susan Steggall is a writer and an art historian with a PhD in Creative Writing allied to a Master and a Bachelor Degree in Art History and Theory. Publications include: 'Alpine Beach: A Family Adventure' (1999; translated by the author as 'Sydney-en-chablais: aventure savoyarde d’une famille australienne'); novels, 'Forget Me Not' (2006), 'It Happened Tomorrow' (2013), 'Tis the Doing Not the Deed' (2019), 'The Heritage You Leave Behind' (2021), plus art-related articles, exhibition and book reviews, book chapters and essays. 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 2010-2015. She taught courses in writing about Australian art at UNSW.

Her biography, A Most Generous Scholar: Joan Kerr, Art and Architectural Historian(LHR Press, 2013) was a winner in the Non-Fiction section of the 2013 Society of Women Writers NSW Inc's Biennial Book Awards.

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  • Susan C. Coventry
    5.0 out of 5 stars The journey of a talented artist
    Reviewed in the United States on January 5, 2025
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    To Carve Identity by Susan Steggall is the story of a resilient, determined sculptress with feet in both Scotland and Australia, who struggles to find work/life balance in the post WWII years. It succeeds beautifully in immersing the reader in the modern art of the time, while also following the life of a woman who, though she loves, cherishes, and supports her husband, children, and friends, nevertheless refuses to give up her artistic career.
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