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The House at Salvation Creek by Susan DuncanSusan Duncan won the 2007 Nielsen Bookdata Booksellers Choice Award for Salvation Creek: An Unexpected Life.Published 1 September, 2008 
Susan Duncan won the 2007 Nielsen Bookdata Booksellers Choice Award for Salvation Creek: An Unexpected Life. Salvation Creek is Duncan’s bestselling memoir of love lost, love found and a life renewed in the waterfront community of Pittwater. I finished reading Salvation Creek on a plane sitting next to two burly miners who tried to ignore the tears pouring down my face. So it is with a real pleasure that I turned to Duncan’s new memoir, which focuses more on her home, built by the poet Dorothea Mackellar in the 1920s. Reading The House at Salvation Creek is like catching up with an old dear friend over a pot of tea and homemade lemon cake. Duncan’s book is for those readers who loved Salvation Creek and want to know what has happened to her life with Bob, her friends and the dogs of Lovett Bay. Duncan’s book is also a lesson in living, slowing down, remembering how important friendship is, finding the humour in everyday life and how it's best to always over-cater! The House at Salvation Creek doesn’t pack the emotional punches of Duncan’s earlier memoir but it made me smile, reflect on my life and it brought a tear to my eye. Fiona Stager is the co-owner of Avid Reader Bookshop & Cafe This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-BowkerMore from Non-Fiction Book Reviews
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I loved Susan Duncan's Salvation Creek, I couldnt put it down, but I am actually finding it hard to continue reading "The House". It would have to be the most boring book I have read in a long time, if you hadn't heard of the author, you could be mistaken for thinking her grandmother had written the book. It's too bland.
Having read
The Spare Room' by Helen Garner I found Susan Duncan'sSalvation Creek' almost a companion piece.Salvation Creek' is more discursive, covering much more of Susan's life and the changing tapestry of it, including her battle with breast cancer won whileThe Spare Room' dwells much more on Helen's experience of her friend's last years with cancer while desperately clinging to life and searching for every known cure....which Susan touches only in passing in reference to her former husband's experience. Helen's text is spare and simple but so rich in imagery while Susan's is more narrative/ discursive and again so pleasurable reading....top marks to both. Regards the above comment...so hard to capture the magic twice....I guess the reason Dodie Smith did not write a sequel to `I Capture the Castle' one of my favourite books. CelesteAdd a Comment
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