| Title | : | The Lakewoman |
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| ISBN | : | 1921509341 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781921509346 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 |
| Publication | : | First published January 1, 2009 |
| Awards | : | Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction (2010) |
An Australian soldier in British service parachute sinto the roaring embattled skies of the night before D-Day, and lands in a vast lake of flooded fields. His encounter with a mysterious woman who seems to rule that water world deflects him from the war and from all the promise his life had seemed to hold. A strange and compelling book.
'A moving love story that is also a deeply absorbing poetic meditation on the moral journey of a solitary man. A brilliant achievement.'
Alex Miller, 2009
'A moving love story that is also a deeply absorbing poetic meditation on the moral journey of a solitary man. A brilliant achievement.'
Alex Miller, 2009
The Lakewoman Reviews
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A beautifully written, slow moving account of one man's experience of love and war. Parachuting into France during WWII Alec is saved from drowning by a mysterious French woman called Viva. Two brief interludes with Viva change his life forever. While I loved the writing I thought the supernatural elements contrived and the relationship of the main characters very strange.
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I struggled at the beginning with the archness of Gould's style, but my persistence paid off as I sank into this unusual war-time love story.
