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The Orchard
The Orchard | Drusilla Modjeska
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'In The Orchard [Modjeska] further develops her distinctive style, weaving fact with fiction, the essay with a flowing fictional narrative, and stories within stories... Modjeska is accessible and entertaining, a good story-teller... Love, adultery, marriage, and domination; sight, the fear of blindness, solitude and self-knowledge; childhood, education and the plight of the intellectual woman; all come under Modjeska's intelligent scrutiny. Her dexterity at interlacing these assorted skeins without unravelling or entanglement is to be marvelled at'CANBERRA TIMES '. . . a beautifully written narrative, turning on the stories of four women at different ages, and through their self-analysis, the story of many more... The Orchard is written with style and complexity'MELBOURNE TIMES 'a book brimful with ideas, informed by a wide-ranging imagination, and certain to inspire those who read it to act upon their dreams... As enriching a book as you're likely to read this year'HERALD SUN
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MrsMalaprop
The Orchard | Drusilla Modjeska
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Although written and set in 1990‘s Australia, this felt older. Women pondering their lives, separate from men.

It‘s interesting to me that I seem to be reading a lot in this space lately. Life mirroring art mirroring life 🤔?

I am happy to have now read something by Drusilla Modjeska. #ozfiction

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MrsMalaprop
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I‘ve had Australian author Drusilla Modjeska on my radar for a while.
I‘m starting with this 1994 novel that I picked up somewhere along the way 🤷‍♀️📚.
This ambling, contemplative novel is filled with pearls of wisdom like this one.
Anyone else out there a Modjeska fan?

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Areader2
The Orchard | Drusilla Modjeska
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Oops screwed up the last post hit the spoiler button by accident
Finally home starting my reading again #24in48

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Centique
The Orchard | Drusilla Modjeska
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#heatofjuly #despacito

Here‘s a book that moves slowly (despacito) but beautifully. I read this a long time ago - so I‘ve incl a blurb from Publishers Weekly. ⬆️ It‘s part novel, part essay. Four women staying on an orchard are making sense of their lives, their creative selves and how they have been dominated by men. The Orchard felt like a very healing place to take a time out and consider the meaning of life.

Centique I should read something else by Modjeska. Have you read her @CarolynM ? 6y
BarbaraBB This sounds wonderful! And despacito indeed! 6y
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