Year of the Ginkgo

By Sharon Dilworth

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How well do you know your neighbours? How well do you know yourself?
+++++Caroline, a middle-aged Pittsburgh woman married to a doctor, finding herself thrown back on her own resources when she loses her job, focuses her attention on the street where she lives and becomes involved in the goings-on of the neighbourhood. Before long she falls in love with her neighbour’s Scottish husband and builds a fantasy life around him, believing her feelings are returned.
+++++It takes the threatened safety of a child to make Caroline see her life as it really is and to realise that she is not the only one on the street who has difficulty facing up to reality.
+++++Both funny and poignant, Year of the Ginkgo is a novel that at its core deals with the stagnation that can occur in middle age – it explores the feeling that opportunities have not only passed us by but that we may have already reached our final destination.
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The author says of her work:
+++++At the risk of duplicating John Updike, I find the prosaic comedy of American middle age to be a rich vein of inspiration. Ambiguity and paradox have become familiar subjects, and with that, I attempt to capture the sadness and grace notes of the quotidian.
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Year of the Ginkgo confirms that Sharon Dilworth is a remarkably talented writer. She has a keen eye for detail, an effortless, understated style, and an instinct for revealing those uncomfortable dark truths simmering away below polite suburban surfaces.
Rodge Glass, Somerset Maugham Award Winner, 2009

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ISBN 978-0-9558360-6-0
A5 / 148mm x 210mm
232 pages
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