Driving into the Sun

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For Orla, living in the suburbs in 1968 on the cusp of adolescence, her father is a great shining light, whose warm and powerful presence fills her world. But after his sudden death, Orla, her mother and her sister are left in a no-man's land, a place where the certainties and protections of the nuclear family suddenly and mysteriously no longer apply, and where the path between girl and woman must be navigated alone.

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Marcella Polain was born in Singapore and immigrated to Australia at the age of two with her Irish father and Armenian mother. She writes poetry, narrative fiction and lyric essays; her work has been published nationally and internationally, and in translation. Her first novel, The Edge of the World (2007, Fremantle Press), was shortlisted for a Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She has published three collections of poetry- Dumbstruck won the Anne Elder Poetry Prize, Each Clear Night was shortlisted for the WA Premier's Prize for Poetry and Therapy Like Fish- New and Selected Poems was shortlisted for the Judith Wright Prize. She is Senior Lecturer in the Writing program at Edith Cowan University, Perth.