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Whale Rock Kindle Edition

by Diana Plater (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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A woman grieves for her unborn child, an Indigenous elder seeks his mother’s story, a Nicaraguan immigrant pines for the revolution, a journalist fights her memory of the horrors of Kosovo. A labourer plunges to his death on a building site. All hell breaks loose…

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307 pages
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English
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29 March 2019
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2265 KB
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Diana Plater was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA but grew up in Sydney, Australia. Her journalism has appeared widely in newspapers, magazines and online. She has covered Indigenous and race issues since the beginning of her career and was based in Nicaragua in the mid-1980s during the Sandinista/Contra war. She has written several non-fiction books, including Taking Control: How to aim for a successful pregnancy after miscarriage, stillbirth or neo-natal loss, and the Cootamundra Girls Home chapter in Many Voices, Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation published by the National Library as well as a play, Havana, Harlem. Raging Partners, written with Ollie Smith, was short-listed for a 2001 NSW Premier's Literary Award. Whale Rock is her first novel.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NYHWNTR
Publisher ‏ : ‎ MoshPit Publishing (29 March 2019)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2265 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 307 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1922261599

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Diana Plater was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA to Australian parents and grew up in Sydney. "Whale Rock" was published in 2019. She has also written several non-fiction books, including "Taking Control: How to aim for a successful pregnancy after miscarriage, stillbirth or neo-natal loss", and the Cootamundra Girls Home chapter in "Many Voices, Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation" published by the National Library as well as a play, "Havana, Harlem". She co-wrote "Raging Partners" with Ollie Smith, which was short-listed for a 2001 NSW Premier's Literary Award.

Her journalism has appeared widely in newspapers, magazines and online. She has covered Indigenous and race issues since the beginning of her career and was based in Nicaragua in the mid-1980s during the Sandinista/Contra war.

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Mimi

Engaging all the way to the end

Reviewed in Australia on 4 June 2019

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Thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed this book by Australian writer Diana Plater. It covers important issues in contemporary Australia, such as the treatment of refugees and indigenous Australians – the Stolen Generations – while involving the reader in the complex lives and relationships of a colourful cast. Great work.

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Nebulous

Complex, Introspective and Engaging

Reviewed in Australia on 8 March 2021

Diana Plater's "Whale Rock" is a fusion of diverse narratives that reflects Australia's multicultural society. Whale Rock invites the readers on an introspective journey covering prominent issues of trauma, immigration and racism. This book explores the complexities of human emotion and relationships. Despite the glaring differences in the characters' backgrounds, they are connected by loss, hurt and betrayal. The level of research and the interactions woven by Diana makes it such an educational and engaging read. The flashbacks and the points of revelation are well crafted, and the ending is highly fitting. This book has left its mark on me, and I won't be surprised if I go in for a second read.

I received this ARC from VoraciousReadersOnly. This honest review is left voluntarily.

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Complex and entertaining

Reviewed in Australia on 3 July 2019

Café owner and mother of one, Shannon buries herself in work, after losing her second baby and marriage to Tom. The café she runs in Bondi is the intersection point for the five characters featured in this moving, bitingly honest debut novel by Diana Plater. Shannon doesn’t have much time for indulgent café society. She’s drawn instead to customers like Colin and Rafael who don’t fit the mould. Colin’s a foreman at a building site, struggling with scars laid down by his, and his mother’s Stolen Children upbringing in orphanages and foster homes. As with Colin, the fault line in Rafael’s life runs deep into history. Rafael’s a Nicaraguan construction worker, hiding out in Australia for a crime he committed back home during the Sandanista revolution of the ‘70s. A shared love of salsa, sparks a passionate connection between Shannon and Rafael, but their hopes founder on a journalist’s incorrigible ambition. Vesna’s struggling to retain her place at a newspaper that’s dying, but she has no intention of going down with it. Shoring up her options she starts an affair with Tom, Shannon’s ex – a Serbian Australian like herself - as well as an investigation that threatens to unravel Shannon and Rafael’s new happiness.

Tension builds and emotions run high as the characters are drawn into a race against time to beat their inner demons and defeat bloody minded officialdom. In a page turning finish, lives are nearly lost and redemption is found in unexpected ways.

Whale Rock is as diverse and complex as Australia, and every bit as interesting.

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BarbarinaS

An excellent read

Reviewed in the United States on 12 April 2019

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Diana Plater has presented readers with an intriguing tale and one very easily possible in our multicultural country. At first so many characters coming together in one way or another at a cafe in Tamarama is puzzling and almost improbable until you work out that the novel is much more than a complex plot. It an exploration of life, of coincidences, and of differences.

Our lives are like a puzzle, a jigsaw puzzle of stories of ordinary people who too often have things happen to them while the rest of us remain oblivious. Then, something draws our attention, too often too late and too often too tragic. Slowly the pieces begin to fit and Sydney comes to life with clever descriptions and some now fascinating people who make connections without really understanding the whole until after the events occur.

As we read on each story begins to blend with the story of others including some dramatic flashbacks, sad and brutal. There are so many stories to be heard and not just from immigrants, and in sharing stories understanding grows along with the belief that hope does exist. It is in listening to each other that we begin to better understand ourselves.

I highly recommend this to all readers who love intrigue, politics, romance, and a very good story. Great reading!

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Sue Reading

We All Need a Whale Rock

Reviewed in the United States on 29 March 2020

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Diana Plater has a keen understanding of human behavior and motivation and that's why her characters seem so real. In Whale Rock she gathers diverse people together, than lets them interact and eventually resolve the paths to their destiny. The joy in reading this novel lies in Plater's gift for realistically communicating her characters' behavior and providing us with a glimpse into these important pieces of their lives.

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