How to Disappear

by Rosanne Dingli

A purple bicycle, a broken statuette, doughnuts, and a spur-of-the-moment drive with a virtual stranger take Selby Green away from her grey existence toward real life. She discovers belonging and warmth through the cruel route of heartbreak; the price of impulsiveness. Bohemian glass, the forests of Moravia, escape from behind the Iron Curtain, and a ten-pound assisted passage to Australia bring Edmund Eben from nowhere to here. He designs vases, sells hats, paints pictures, yearns to belong, learns to love. Edmund and Selby are somehow connected. Time, history, pain and the inexorable pull of kinship bring them together through tenuous ties and unbreakable bonds. How to Disappear is a novel in two parts that links two analogous lives. It is one story, two courses. Two lives, one fate. It is a demonstration of how confusion and loss only need a stroke of convergence to develop into enduring affection.

284 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

This author's latest release is Pledges of Loyalty, the latest in the Denisthorn Hall series.

Rosanne Dingli has authored fifteen novels, six story collections, five novellas, and her collected poems. She has had numerous articles, stories, reviews, columns and poems published Australia-wide and on the internet since 1986. She has worked as teacher, lecturer, workshop coordinator, magazine and corporate editor, travel consultant, cook, manuscript assessor, heraldic artist and business partner. Originally from Malta, she has travelled widely in Italy, the UK, Turkey, Greece, South East Asia, Holland, Belgium, and France as well as most Australian states. She lives in Western Australia with her partner Hugo Bouckaert, Belgian GIS expert, biologist and philosopher.


Books:

According to Luke
Death in Malta
Fascinating Trickster
The Hidden Auditorium
The White Lady of Marsaxlokk
Counting Churches - The Malta Stories
All the Wrong Places (poetry)
The Astronomer's Pig
The Day of the Bird
How to Disappear
A Funeral in Fiesole
The Frozen Sea
The Cartographer of Venice
A Place in Society
A Suitable Husband
Maids and Mistresses
Pledges of Loyalty
Petals & Pages
Vertical Hold
Two
The Geography of Solitude
Chance and Necessity: A novel of Narrogin and Williams

Reviews

[Brenda Perlin · Rating 5 out of 5]

How to Disappear, a novel in two parts by Rosanne Dingli is a very enticing read. The author knows how to grab the readers attention early on and the grip is tight all the way through. She has a way with words. There is a poetic quality to her writing that I find fascinating and alluring. Very unique. An artistic flair with a hint of sarcasm and darkness. Maybe more than a hint which added to the mystery. Poignant and sharp as a razor blade.


I was moved by the truth and honesty in this narrative. Has a very theatrical vibe to it. The repetitions were symbolic to a pain so deep. I was lured in. Mesmerized by the originality and the utter despair that was displayed around every corner. An interesting way to convey emotion and yet it did strike a chord. Lured me in deeper. With each brush stroke, this becomes a piece of art all its own. Meaningful, cynical and with great depth.

Quote ~

He took a pen from his pocket and bit off the cap. Crooked front tooth. Determined eyes. Took her hand, gently, from where it gripped the table edge, and wrote a long number on her skin, starting where her thumb ended, digging the point in near a raised blue vein. 'My mobile. Unless I hear otherwise, I'll be outside, just right there, at seven thirty, tomorrow. Just after dark, it'll be. Now write yours.’

[Shelley]

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