Journal Entry 1 by tqd from Sydney, New South Wales Australia on Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Picked up at Abbey's sale.

From the back of the book (all typos mine):

'I am waiting for this visitor so that I can tell my story and die.'

Victoria Morrell was once a great artist. She led the high life - living and working in Paris in the 1920s, mixing with the artists of the Surrealists movement. Her work, largely forgotten in the fifties and sixties, was rediscovered in the seventies when she became something of a cult figure in the London art scene. She now lives as a recluse in Hampstead, London.

And she is dying.

Anna Griffin is the young woman commissioned to write a biography of Victoria's life. In many ways their lives strangely intersect, since they grew up in the same town and share the same preoccupations. In a compelling double narrative, Gail Jones tracks Victoria's past as it intertwines with Anna's life. The stories Victoria tells - the 'black mirror' stories - enable both women to enter into new forms of sympathy and understanding. 

Journal Entry 2 by tqd at Australian Bookcrossing convention 2007 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Released 4 yrs ago (9/11/2007 UTC) at Australian Bookcrossing convention 2007 in Melbourne, Victoria Australia

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Sending this off in a bookbag for the convention. If I can't make it, at least some of my books can!

Happy reading! 

Journal Entry 3 by MelbCon from Melbourne, Victoria Australia on Sunday, September 30, 2007

Gratefully received, to be released at the convention in October. Thanks from the convention committee.