Unbroken blue / Jan Borrie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borrie, Jan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mothers and daughters--Fiction.

Mothers and daughters.

Australia--Fiction.

Australia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : Pandanus Books, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University ; Sydney, NSW : Distributed by UNIREPS, University of New South Wales, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When Annabella's father is killed in a bush-fire, her mother, Eva, disappears without explanation. Left in the care of Eva's seven sisters, not all of whom are as sweet as their names suggest, Annabella fights to hold on to her own name and identity. The memory of her mother is constant and she clings to its details so that she can recognize her when Eva returns. Passing through the hands of a succession of carers, whose concern for their ward varies from indifference to cruelty, Annabella knows that her salvation lies in being reunited with her mother. While she waits, she watches as parts of her name--and parts of herself--begin to be chipped away.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

She is close

Annabella escapes feet first

Thoughts keep repeating

Eva doesn't belong here

Benecio is born on the roadside

The first view

The woman with silver hair

Annabella, not Anna

A house on the side of a hill

There, there, no more tears

The man becomes lost

The woman with the silky voice

Two names joined together

This is your first big day

This is where you have been hiding

The man with grey hair

Be good, Anna

Skin too tight

If only his face would burst

Money for her pocket

Do as you're told

Tell me a secret

Room like a garden

Make the pain stop

Make the man disappear

A pain in her head

The woman with the crooked nose

The man with blue eyes

Annabella in the mirror

Annabella is small

Tug of war

This is much better

Too small to see

Auntie Suzannah loves you

This is all your fault

Someone else's problem

Waking up the street

The woman with emerald eyes

Another of your sisters

This is the place where you were born

Coming closer to you

Sailing waves of green

On the roof of the world

She said she was sorry

The house in the sky

Angeline listens in the darkness

Albert watches the trains

The middle of nowhere

Eva did whatever she pleased

Eva as an apparition

Elizabeth dreams of fire

Albert was hypnotised

Pictures of you

A long way from anywhere

The divisions of love

How to live without Eva

Remembering a dream

I am still waiting

Black and white and colour

Please contact your daughter

Particular faces

Letters from Eva

The poem of names

A wedding in the snow

Too many memories

Pieces chipped away

Time takes up space

Words that say nothing

The first seeds of doubt

Déjà vu

So much waiting

How else to explain this?.

This is no answer

Newly emptied space

You can't walk away

Why didn't you wait?

Another way of seeing

The bonds of a poem

There is no excuse

Verses break free.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

1-74076-164-2

OCLC:

60035082