The Other Side of Silence: A Novel
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : August 2016
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 156
- Category :
Fiction - Catalogue No : 38896
- ISBN 13 : 9781782204824
- ISBN 10 : 1782204822
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A gripping, emotionally charged drama unfolding over a tumultuous week for Anna Mason, a Melbourne doctor: her newborn nephew’s life hangs in the balance, her parents meet after years of rage and silence, and Anna’s own heartbreak can no longer be denied.
Moving, complex, but ultimately life-affirming, this book explores what happens when families are silent for generations about painful emotional truths and how lives can change when the truth is finally spoken.
About the Author(s)
Pauline Schokman was born in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, of Burgher (Eurasian) heritage. She is a general medical practitioner, psychotherapist and novelist who lives and works in Melbourne. Her debut novel The Other Side of Silence was published in London in 2016.
Customer Reviews
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Karen Brown and Hesham Azer on 09/09/2016 06:53:47
(5 out of 5)
The Other Side of Silence is a beautifully descriptive novel with great attention to detail, evoking wonderful images of the Australian bush and Melbourne, along with rich insights into human behaviour.
The reader is drawn into Dr Anna Mason's life and the complexities of her personal circumstances and family relationships, heightened at a time of turmoil as her newly born nephew struggles to live. It's a novel that's hard to put down as the intensity progresses and family patterns and behaviours are revealed, ultimately culminating in the freedom that comes from speaking about difficult emotional truths and the choices that this enables.
We would highly recommend this novel.
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