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Cut and Style

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April 2008, no. 300

The Dressmaker’s Daughter by Kate Llewellyn

Fourth Estate, $32.99 pb, 427 pp

Cut and Style

by
April 2008, no. 300

This memoir moves through points of intensity in Kate Llewellyn’s life, from an idyllic childhood at Tumby Bay on the Eyre Peninsula in the 1940s through to her leaving Adelaide to make a new life in Sydney in the 1980s. By this time she is a recognised poet, but her life is in turmoil. The book does not set out to tell a success story; rather, it describes that uneven movement from childhood innocence through adult experience, with all naïveté, self-delusion, idealism, and hard-learned lessons. It is quintessentially a poet’s book, its stories heightened by arresting images, its movement circling rather than linear.

The Dressmaker’s Daughter

The Dressmaker’s Daughter

by Kate Llewellyn

Fourth Estate, $32.99 pb, 427 pp

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