The Other Side of the World (23 page)

About the Author

Author photograph by Craig Peihopa

Stephanie Bishop's first novel was
The Singing
, for which she was named one of the
Sydney Morning Herald
's Best Young ­Australian Novelists.
The Singing
was also highly commended for the ­Kathleen Mitchell Award.
The
Other Side of the World
is her second novel. It was shortlisted for the
Australian
/Vogel's Literary Award under the title
Dream England
and was winner of the 2015 Readings Award for New Australian Fiction.

Stephanie's essays and reviews have appeared in the
Times ­Literary Supplement
, the
Australian
,
Sydney Review of Books
,
Australian Book
Review
, and the
Sydney Morning Herald
. She holds a PhD from Cambridge University and is currently a lecturer in creative writing at the University of New South Wales. She lives in Sydney.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bishop, Stephanie, 1979- author.

Title: The other side of the world : a novel / Stephanie Bishop.

Description: First Atria Books hardcover edition. | New York : Atria Books, 2016. | The Other Side of the World is her second novel and was shortlisted for the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award under the title Dream England. It was published in London by Tinder Press as The other side of the world (2015).

Identifiers: LCCN 2015042117| ISBN 9781501133121 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501133138 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781501133145 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Interracial marriage--Fiction. | Home--Fiction. | Identity (Psychology)--Fiction. | England--Fiction. | Australia--Fiction. |India--Fiction. | Psychological fiction.

Classification: LCC PR9619.4.B557 O84 2016 | DDC 823/.92--dc23 LC record ­available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015042117

ISBN 978-1-5011-3312-1

ISBN 978-1-5011-3314-5 (ebook)