A woman working on a thesis about Shirley Hazzard is a character in A Life to Come, the award-winning novel by Michelle de Kretser. The author has now become that character; de Kretser has published On Shirley Hazzard, written for the series Writers on Writers (Black inc.). A Life to Come has won several awards; when I wrote about that book in this column in November 2017, it took no particular foresight to imagine its success given her preceding six novels.
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