A beautiful novel from award-winning writer Kristel Thornell, The Siren Song is about the haunting force of love and desire that ricochets between lives, across generations and through time. It is a portrait of Australian longing.
Katoomba, early 1990s. Heather and David are two young people on the brink of adulthood, drawn together by their study of Italian. David is smitten with Heather, but has no idea how she feels about him. They have something in common, besides Italian, both children of struggling single mothers, who have raised them through a series of grungy share houses in the inner west of Sydney, before moving to the Blue Mountains. At a festive evening to celebrate Heather's final exam, something happens that will change their lives forever.
Sydney, early 1970s. Jan, the unconfident daughter of working-class parents and the first in her family to go to university, strikes up a friendship with bohemian, assured Alicia. They quickly become close. But one night down by the Blackwattle Bay - the night of Gough Whitlam's dismissal - things go badly awry.
A tender and poignant novel about longing, and the way in which it echoes down the generations, The Siren Song tells of desire, how it haunts and affects us, and how, from generation to generation, there are echoes, overlaps and intersections in how we love, who we love, and why we love, as we repeat the same patterns around love, desire, longing and compulsion over and over again, like moths to a flame.
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HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd
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978-1-4607-1525-3 (9781460715253)
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Kristel Thornell was born in Sydney and has lived in Italy, Mexico, Canada, Finland, the United States and France, where she is now based. She has degrees in Italian Studies and English, and a PhD from the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney. She has published short fiction, poetry, reviews, essays and the novel Night Street (2010), for which she co-won the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award and won the Dobbie Literary Award and the Barbara Ramsden Award. She was shortlisted for the Glenda Adams Award and the Christina Stead Prize for fiction in the NSW Premier's Awards and was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Australian Novelists in 2011. Her second novel, On the Blue Train, was published in 2016.
