Searching for Charmian

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What a story🥹. What writing 😍.
Imagine if you grew up knowing you were adopted and were told a fiction about the circumstances of your birth.
In your late 40s you get hold of your original birth certificate, and read your biological mother‘s name…famous Australian writer Charmian Clift.
This book was re-released after the author‘s daughter Gina Chick wrote her memoir, We Are The Stars, a book I read and loved in 2024.
Wonderful 🥰🙏👏

CarolynM I read this one a long time ago and I wondered if it would get rereleased when Gina‘s book got so much attention. It is a great book and a really interesting twist on the adoption story, don‘t you think? 1w

MrsMalaprop @CarolynM Yes, so interesting and well done by Suzanne Chick. 1w

Rissreadswithcats Staaaaaaaaaaaaaacked!!!!!!! 💙 1w

Rissreadswithcats I just realised today that with my Spotify account I get 15 hrs of free Audio book listening. This was included. It scraped in at 14hrs and 48 mins 🤣 I‘m so excited! 1w

Jeg Can‘t wait to read this. Heard her on the radio. 1w

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Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick

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I think the sun is going down on my last summery day 😭 so I am sitting on my balcony reading about books and drinking a birthday bottle. I think the tagged book will be the one I take to the Sydney Writer‘s Festival this year to read. Turns out my parents will be in old Sydney town for dad‘s drs appointments to do with his accident not this January but the last so we will catch up for dinner both nights and they have booked the same hotel as me.

TrishB Sounds like a plan. Love your glass ❤️ 2mo

LapReader Thankyou @TrishB It was a gift from an old man whose wife I work with. She is way past retirement. I don‘t have a license so he would drive me home from work once a week in exchange for the use of my sauna as it helped with his emphysema which he died of eventually. They were his mother‘s and so delicate. I cherish them. Very generous people. 2mo

TrishB Oh that‘s a lovely story too (sad but lovely!). Beautiful and good memories. 2mo

CarolynM This was such an interesting book. I‘ve been thinking about it a lot since Suzanne‘s daughter‘s book has been out🙂 2mo

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Searching for Charmian | Suzanne Chick

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When Suzanne Chick was told that the girl who gave her up for adoption was Charmain Clift, a famous Australian literary figure of the mid 20th century, she sets out to discover as much as she can about who that girl really was and exactly what happened to her.

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Reviewsbylola This is a new one for me and for some reason I thought the cover was Tangerine at first. 😂 7y

emilyhaldi Looks like a good one!!! 7y

Meredith3 Sounds very interesting! 7y

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batsy At first glance I instantly thought of the Tangerine cover as well 😁 @Reviewsbylola 7y

Cinfhen Sounds really good and I also got Tangerine vibes @Reviewsbylola @batsy #stacked 7y

CarolynM @Reviewsbylola @batsy I didn't think about that, but it does look similar to the Tangerine cover @emilyhaldi @Meredith3 @Cinfhen It is interesting, Charmain lived an eventful life. 7y

Mdargusch The look on that girls face. 😏 7y

Reviewsbylola Too funny! I legit thought I needed sleep. 😂 @batsy @Cinfhen 7y

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