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Stephanie Bishop

Biography

Stephanie Bishop

Stephanie Bishop was named one of The Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Australian Novelists for her debut novel, THE SINGING. She holds a PhD from Cambridge University and is currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of New South Wales. THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD was longlisted for the Stella Prize 2016 and shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2016, the Australian/Vogel Literary Award, and the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. It won the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction 2015, as well as the Australian Book Industry Award for Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2016.

Stephanie Bishop

Books by Stephanie Bishop

The Other Side of the World
by Stephanie Bishop - Fiction, Historical Fiction

While struggling with motherhood, and the changes marriage and parenthood bring, Charlotte decides to travel with her husband, Henry, to Australia. But upon their arrival in Perth, it becomes apparent that their new life is not the answer either was hoping for. Charlotte barely recognizes herself in this place where she is no longer a promising young artist, but instead a lonely housewife, venturing into the murky waters of infidelity. Henry, an Anglo-Indian, is slowly ostracized at the university where he teaches poetry. Subtle at first, it soon invades his entire sense of identity. Trapped by nostalgia, Charlotte and Henry are both left wondering if there is anywhere in this world they truly belong.