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Ways of Escape
2009
First Published
3.03
Average Rating
272
Number of Pages
If you could slip away unnoticed from your day-to-day life, would you? If you could cover your tracks, if you could fly away, if you could start a new would you do it? Tom is a burnt-out counsellor who readers first encountered in WINTER CLOSE. Myra is his client. Ruth, a busy GP and mother of three, is his neighbour. Rich, her husband, has left to make a new life with his lover. Len dreams of retirement but might be persuaded to take on one last job. In WAYS OF ESCAPE they are all forced to confront questions of identity, desire, ambition and truth.
Avg Rating
3.03
Number of Ratings
38
5 STARS
5%
4 STARS
29%
3 STARS
42%
2 STARS
11%
1 STARS
13%
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Author

Hugh Mackay
Hugh Mackay
Author · 19 books

Hugh Mackay is a social researcher and novelist who has made a lifelong study of the attitudes and behaviour of Australians. He is the author of twelve books, including five bestsellers. The second edition of his latest non-fiction book, Advance Australia…Where? was published in September 2008, and his fifth novel, Ways of Escape was published in May 2009. He is a fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and received the University of Sydney’s 2004 Alumni Award for community service. In recognition of his pioneering work in social research, Hugh has been awarded honorary doctorates by Charles Sturt, Macquarie and NSW universities. He is a former deputy chairman of the Australia Council, a former chairman of trustees of Sydney Grammar School, and was the inaugural chairman of the ACT government’s Community Inclusion Board. He was a newspaper columnist for almost 30 years and now writes occasionally for The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The West Australian. He is a frequent guest on ABC radio.

  • Biography from Hugh Mackay's website
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