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Keep Your Hands On The Wheel
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Product Description
Marah and Charis have left Australia to pursue very different careers. Marah, a trainee opera diva, tries hard to keep her weight, her life, her self under control; Charis works nights as a telegram girl, zooming across London on her motorbike dressed as a French maid or a pregnant bride.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1079152 in Books
- Published on: 2000-10-05
- Original language: English
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Kathryn Heyman was born in Australia in 1965. She currently lives in Oxford but is planning to return to Australia to live in 2001.
Customer Reviews
What sisters do
A superb, comic and moving evocation of sibling rivalry in a family with a dark secret.
Marah is an uptight opera singer in New England. Her sister Charis is letting it all hang out as a London singing telegram girl. When their mother calls them back to Australia for her wedding to the ominously named Dingo, the fight is on to reclaim the truth about their past.
With great skill and economy Heyman captures the fleeting nature of memory, and the compromises of flawed love. Keep your Hands on the Wheel challenges us, as well as the book's characters, to decide for ourselves whose truth to believe, without ever flinching from a central and hopeful message: be true to yourself.
