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Author_Josephine Wilson
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extinction
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friendship
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grief
hope
marriage
parabola
poured concrete
responsibility
reunion
secrets
trauma
trust
widower
Product details
- ISBN 9781788160773
- Weight: 260g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 2019
- Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving to a retirement village. Surrounded and obstructed by the debris of his life, he is determined to be miserable, but is tired of his existence and of the life he has chosen.
When a series of unfortunate incidents forces him and his neighbour, Jan, together, he begins to realise the damage done by the accumulation of a lifetime's secrets and lies, and to comprehend his own shortcomings. Finally, Frederick Lothian has the opportunity to build something meaningful for the ones he loves.
Humorous, poignant and galvanising, this is a novel about all kinds of extinction - natural, racial, national and personal - and what we can do to prevent them.
Josephine Wilson lives in Perth, Western Australia with her partner and two children. Her first novel, Cusp, was published in 2005. Extinctions, her second novel, won the Miles Franklin Award in 2017.
