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Stories from the Southern Cross

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Stories from the Southern Cross: Episode 1: The Road from Austinmer Beach, by Catherine Cole

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Episode 1: The Road from Austinmer Beach, by Catherine Cole

The Road from Austinmer Beach, by Catherine Cole

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A retired widower discovers more than he bargained for when he walks into a cake shop.

4 Extra Debut. A retired widower discovers more than he bargained for when he walks into Irina's cake shop. From July 2014.

Stories from the Southern Cross consists of three new pieces of writing produced in collaboration with the first Australia New Zealand Literature Festival. Each story represents a new voice from the Antipodes - a place at once very familiar, but in fact quite different.

The series depicts a world of aggressive ennui, of suburban sprawl battling with a voracious bush and extreme weather, of taboos and generations colliding as old, White Australia comes to terms with another generation of migration.

In "The Road from Austinmer Beach", widower Bert Hamilton travels for two hours a week to visit residents in a home - when, one day, a traffic jam forces a change of route, the discovery of a cake shop and an encounter with the latest wave of immigration that sheds new light on his life.


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Three stories produced in collaboration with the Australia New Zealand Literature Festival

Three pieces of writing produced in collaboration with the first Australia New Zealand Literature Festival.

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