Family Skeleton

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Author
Carmel Bird
Publisher
UWA Publishing
Genre
Fiction
Released
01 September, 2018
ISBN
9781742588902

Family Skeleton

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Synopsis

From inside her Toorak mansion, Margaret, matriarch, widow of Edmund Rice O’Day of O’Day Funerals, secretly surveys her family in the garden. Everyone, including Margaret herself, is oblivious to the secrets that threaten to be uncovered by a visiting American relative who is determined to excavate the O’Day’s family history. How far will Margaret go in order to bury the truth? Family Skeleton examines the dark heart of a family that has for generations been engaged in dark business. You can’t dig a grave without disturbing the smooth surface of the ground.Deftly woven with elegant wit and with compassion, this dark comedy is about what you might unearth if you dig deep enough.
Carmel Bird
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Carmel Bird

Carmel Bird is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction. Her first collection of short stories appeared in 1976. Since then she has published novels, essays, anthologies, children's books and also manuals on how to write.

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