You must become a little suitcase and try not to think about home. You must close up tight, protect your most needed possessions – all you can hold. One stays in Prague, the other crams her life into a small brown suitcase and travels to Melbourne. It’s an ode to the life Favel shared with her grandparents – her fond memories are woven through a fictional account of twin Czechoslovakian sisters, separated by World War II. for me anyway, but it certainly did not disappoint. His anger slaps Eva, but his hate will change everything, as war forces so many lives into small, brown suitcases. Eva runs into him, hits the pavement hard. And there is still cake, sometimes.' 6 quotes from Favel Parrett: 'Steady, steady, we move at half-speed, and when I look up, a cape petrel is just above me, flying with us. Suddenly a man steps out, a man wearing a hat. Make your own mind up about what is right.', and 'There is still love.

It meant I had high expectations for her latest, There Was Still Love which is always worrying. Prague, 1938: Eva flies down the street from her sister. Instead, the story is in the small details and their recollections of how they felt at particular moments – that’s where the meaning is found.įavel Parrett’s third novel, There Was Still Love, demonstrates how detail tells the story. Australian author Favel Parrett's Past The Shallows and When the Night Comes are two of my favourite books. That’s never true, although I have learnt that the dates and facts about a person’s life are not that important. People will often say that they have ‘nothing to tell’.

People tell their stories, I transcribe them. Eligible for Free Shipping Expedited Shipping Available Item Condition. I volunteer with a palliative program as a biography writer. There Was Still Love by Favel Parrett Write The First Customer Review.

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