the other side of the world by stephanie bishop

She is a professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and is currently working on her fifth novel. She has received fellowships to Yaddo, Tenjinyama Art Studio, Himachal Pradesh University, and Oxford University, where she was a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for Life Writing and holds a PhD from Cambridge University.īishop’s essays and fiction have appeared in the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, The Monthly and the Sydney Review of Books, among other publications. Stephanie Bishop's The Other Side of the World is a deeply melancholy novel about emigration, marriage and motherhood.

In 2006 she was named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists of the Year. Fiction - hardcover Tinder Press 304 pages 2015. In the tradition of The Hours and Revolutionary Road, an exquisite meditation on motherhood, marriage, and the meaning of home (The New York Times Book Review), set in England, Australia, and India in the early 1960s.The only thing harder than losing home is trying to find it again. A tender and gorgeously written novel of a marriage in crisis in the tradition of Revolutionary Road, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD by Stephanie Bishop was an Australian bestseller (2015), and winner of the ABIA Award for Literary Fiction Book of the Year and the 2015 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. She is the recipient of multiple prizes, including The Readings Prize for New Australian Writing, the Literary Fiction Book of the Year Award, the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (shortlisted), the Christina Stead Prize for fiction (shortlisted) and the Stella Prize (longlisted). She is the award-winning author of four novels, The Singing, The Other Side of the World, Man Out Of Time and The Anniversary. Stephanie Bishop is a widely acclaimed novelist and critic.

The other side of the world by stephanie bishop