Shirley Hazzard: A Writing Life

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Born and raised in Sydney, Australia, Shirley Hazzard lived around the world: in Hong Kong, Wellington, New Zealand, New York, Naples and Capri and her writing - cosmopolitan, richly intelligent, beautiful, questing - reflects her life. Her body of work is small but the acclaim it attracts is immeasurable. Drawing on diaries, letters and interviews, alongside a close reading of Hazzard's fiction, Brigitta Olubas tells the story of a girl from the suburbs who fell early under the spell of words and sought out first books and then people who loved books as her companions. In the process she transformed and indeed created her life. She became a woman of the world who felt injustice keenly, a deep and original thinker, who wrote some of the most beautiful fiction about love and longing, always with an eye to the ways we reveal ourselves to another. 'Impeccably researched and deeply incisive' Lily King, New York Times'Olubas attends to Hazzard as only someone who loves her could, with generosity, fairness and a deeply human understanding' London Magazine'Hazzard deserves every page of this insightful biography' Guardian