Cover of Sunnyside

Sunnyside

First published 2005

About the book

Harry and Alice Haskins moved from the city in search of mid-life happiness. But fate has other plans. Alice is struggling with writer’s block. Harry, an English professor, is haunted by a beguilingly provocative student. Their children, Joe and Grace, are in danger of capsizing in the deep waters of childhood. And when one of Alice’s best friends embarks on a passionate affair, it sets off a chain of events that reverberates through the Haskins family and the rest of Sunnyside with devastating consequences... Alice and Harry face the big questions: how relationships camouflage the fault-lines of character, the vulnerabilities of families in the wake of emotional anarchy and the ever perplexing question of which is more compelling: passion or love?

Prizes

  1. 2006 Longlist

About the author

Joanna Murray-Smith, born 1962, Australia.

Subjects

Catalogue record

Author
Murray-Smith, Joanna, 1962–
Statement
Sunnyside / Joanna Murray-Smith.

Book facts

ISBN
978-0-670-04297-5
3 more ISBNs
  • 978-0-14-102405-9
  • 978-0-670-91600-9
  • 978-0-14-300536-0
Records
Open Library

Catalogue data checked 3 October 2026