![]() ![]() So when a brochure arrives through the letterbox offering assisted passage for those seeking a new life in Australia (what are known as “£10 poms”), it looks like an opportunity to grab with both hands. Henry is restless - he’s sick of the endlessly wet English weather and their too-small home - while Charlotte is grieving for the loss of her earlier life as a painter now that she’s a new, energy-deprived mother. It’s 1963, and Charlotte lives with her Anglo-Indian husband Henry and their two young daughters in a cute, but damp, cottage in rural Cambridgeshire. It was recently longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize, but did not make the cut, yet I found it a deeply moving story and one that I’m sure I will remember for a long time. Stephanie Bishop’s The Other Side of the World is a deeply melancholy novel about emigration, marriage and motherhood. Fiction – hardcover Tinder Press 304 pages 2015. ![]()
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