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‘We are alike, Kathy thought. You are a desperate one too.’
Australian-born Kathy is convalescing on a Greek island after a near-fatal car accident. The other ‘desperate one’, a sponge diver, has also had a recent brush with death. When these twin souls fall in love, ‘honour’ becomes ‘mimic’ and is cast aside, together with the rules of both their societies
.Originally published in 1964, and newly released by NewSouth, Honour’s Mimic defies the conventions of the romance novel. The only fiction of Clift’s to be set in Greece, this is a return to the sponge-diving island of Kalymnos, where the author lived during her first year in Greece, and which she lovingly described in her travel memoir Mermaid Singing.
‘Clift’s writing is intelligent, witty and engaging.’ Nicole Abadee, The Good Weekend.
‘Reading her, even a glimpsed paragraph of her, is like quaffing the finest champagne on earth.’ Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald/ The Age.
‘We are alike, Kathy thought. You are a desperate one too.’
Australian-born Kathy is convalescing on a Greek island after a near-fatal car accident. The other ‘desperate one’, a sponge diver, has also had a recent brush with death. When these twin souls fall in love, ‘honour’ becomes ‘mimic’ and is cast aside, together with the rules of both their societies
.Originally published in 1964, and newly released by NewSouth, Honour’s Mimic defies the conventions of the romance novel. The only fiction of Clift’s to be set in Greece, this is a return to the sponge-diving island of Kalymnos, where the author lived during her first year in Greece, and which she lovingly described in her travel memoir Mermaid Singing.
‘Clift’s writing is intelligent, witty and engaging.’ Nicole Abadee, The Good Weekend.
‘Reading her, even a glimpsed paragraph of her, is like quaffing the finest champagne on earth.’ Peter Craven, Sydney Morning Herald/ The Age.