Karrana - Skyvington, Anne
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It's the aftermath of the Second World War in the lush valley of Karrana, a fictional town on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Karrana is a novel about love, passion and the search for real fulfilment within a relationship. At a victory dance, Bridie O'Toole meets and falls passionately in love with Will Featherstone from the other side of the river. Both lack life experience and contentment within their families. Bridie feels powerless when confronted with family and social obstacles to her dreams of a life with her chosen partner. The third persona in this narrative is that of…mehr

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It's the aftermath of the Second World War in the lush valley of Karrana, a fictional town on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia. Karrana is a novel about love, passion and the search for real fulfilment within a relationship. At a victory dance, Bridie O'Toole meets and falls passionately in love with Will Featherstone from the other side of the river. Both lack life experience and contentment within their families. Bridie feels powerless when confronted with family and social obstacles to her dreams of a life with her chosen partner. The third persona in this narrative is that of Nature itself, permeating the novel from the beginning to the end. This novel fits into the broad genre of Women's Fiction, since it explores themes to do with love, passion and family. It examines these issues through the prism of the postwar years in country Australia and in Sydney, but the themes are still relevant in society today. Dramatic irony deems that Bridie's inner temperament and creative flair, drive her to want more from life than Nature alone, which is what satisfies Will. This narrative echoes that of Australia at the end of the forties, moving forward, through conflict and passion, towards a more tolerant and liberated future, especially for women. It resembles a "Coming of Age" novel from an historical perspective.
Autorenporträt
Anne Skyvington is one of five siblings born into a country family in rural New South Wales, Australia. After leaving her rural origins, she qualified as a teacher and spent some years in Paris, France, before returning to Sydney. Much of her writing today is informed by the bushland setting of her childhood. She holds two Master Degree qualifications, one in French language and literature, and another in creative writing. A life-long lover of the written word, Anne taught English to overseas educated professionals for over twenty years, before retiring and devoting herself to full-time writing. At the same time, she became increasingly interested in the slowly emerging 'Internet', and the opportunities it brought to writers everywhere. Anne immediately became fascinated with the concept of 'blogging', digital marketing and self-publishing, Her personal blog 'The Craft of Writing' journals the past ten years of her own educational experience, beginning as a complete internet newbie, to a digital expert in the field of Self-Publishing. She blogs on the craft of creative writing and life as a writer in Sydney, Australia. Her articles distil the research she does for her own creative writing and explore the fundamentals of writing and publishing. Anne lives near the beach with her husband in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.