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The Girl Who Saw Everything by Alma De Groen
2 men, 3 women
Author of:The After-Life Of Arthur Cravan, Going Home, The Joss Adams Show, The Rivers Of China,Vocations, Wicked Sisters, The Woman In The Window.
Liz Ransom, a forty-seven year old feminist historian, publishes a controversial social history of women which attributes their suppression to biological determinism.
Trying to escape the furore she has created, Liz retreats to a cottage in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Her husband Gaz, driving to join her, stops to help a terrified young woman by the roadside and is horrified when she is suddenly run down by another car.
The girl had been multiply raped. Gaz becomes obsessed with her, and is shocked by his own behaviour when he develops a relationship with Carol, the driver of the car that killed the Girl.
The predicaments of Liz and Gaz are contrasted with the opportunistic philosophies of their artist friend Saul, and the unexpected wisdom of his flippant young partner, Edwina.
The foundering marriage of Liz and Gaz reaches a reconciliation…perhaps under the steady gaze of the dead Girl, who Carol and Gaz believe is watching everything that happens.
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