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Also by Michelle de Kretser:

Theory & Practice, February 2025
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Questions Of Travel, May 2013
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Theory & Practice
Michelle de Kretser

A Novel

Catapult
February 2025
On Sale: February 18, 2025
192 pages
ISBN: 1646222873
EAN: 9781646222872
Kindle: B0D4K32BV8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Friendship | Coming of Age

A new novel of startling intelligence from prizewinning Australian author Michelle de Kretser, following a writer looking back on her young adulthood and grappling with what happens when life smashes through the boundaries of art

It’s 1986, and “beautiful, radical ideas” are in the air. The narrator of Theory & Practice, a young woman originally from Sri Lanka, arrives in Melbourne for graduate school to research the novels of Virginia Woolf. In the bohemian neighborhood of St. Kilda she meets artists, activists, students—and Kit. He claims to be in a “deconstructed relationship.” They become lovers, and the narrator’s feminism comes up against her jealousy. Meanwhile, an entry in Woolf’s diary upends what the narrator knows about her literary idol, and throws her own work into disarray.

What happens when our desires run contrary to our beliefs? What should we do when the failings of revered figures come to light? Who is shamed when the truth is told? Michelle de Kretser’s new novel offers a spellbinding meditation on the moral complexities that arise in the gap between our values and our lives.

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