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    The Lost Life

    By Steven Carroll

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    A story about love, chance and T.S. Eliot.

    England, September 1934. Two young lovers, Catherine and Daniel, have trespassed into the rose garden of Burnt Norton, an abandoned house in the English countryside. Hearing the sound of footsteps, they hide, and then witness the poet T.S. ('Tom') Eliot and his close friend Emily enter the garden and bury a mysterious tin in the earth. Tom and Emily knew each other in America in their youth; now in their forties, they have come together again. In the enclosed world of an English village one autumn, their story becomes entwined with that of Catherine and Daniel, who are certain in their newfound love and full of possibility. From one of Australia's finest writers, this is a moving, lyrical novel about poetry and inspiration, the incandescence of first love and the yearning for a life that may never be lived.

    'Beautiful and poetically attentive novel' Australian Literary Review.

    'A fine work ... Carroll's prose has a sublime rhythmic quality - it is lyrical and precise, almost as if he has sung words onto the page.' Australian Book Review

    Shortlisted for Barbara Jefferis Award
    Shortlisted for ALS Gold Medal 2010

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers Australia
    Release dateDec 18, 2012
    ISBN9781743099711
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    Steven Carroll

    Steven Carroll is the multi-award winning author of fifteen novels including A World of Other People (2013), which was the joint winner of the Prime Minister's Literary Award, and The Time We Have Taken (2007), which was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the SE Asia and Pacific Region and the Miles Franklin Award in 2008. Forever Young (2015) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award and the Prime Minister's Literary Award in 2016. A New England Affair (2017) was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award in 2018 and The Year of the Beast (2019) was longlisted for the 2020 Voss Literary Prize. His most recent novel, Goodnight, Vivienne, Goodnight was longlisted for the 2022 ARA Historical Novel Prize and for the 2023 Voss Literary Prize. Steven lives in Melbourne with his partner, the author Fiona Capp, and their son.

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    • 3/5
      The story's focus is on the relationship between poet TS Eliot and American Emily Hale. Friends in youth they have a platonic affair which spans many years because Eliot is married. His wife suffers mental illness and he is unable to divorce her because she wont give him up. Carroll's take on this includes two other characters a young woman and her male companion who when strolling through a garden are interrupted by Eliot and Hale who are burying a tin . The young woman recognises Hale , she has been employed to clean this American woman's rented cottage. The tin is then dug up by the young woman's companion which then puts her in a moral quandary. A nice story about first love and although the writing is quite beautiful he does tend to take an entire page to make a small point which I personally find annoying about his style.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book, the structure, the language, the characters