Pilgrimage
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At forty-nine, Celeste has long renounced the religion of her childhood. Yet she finds herself reluctantly accompanying her mother and sister to a pilgrimage site in Romania, where her devout mother seeks a miracle — a cure for her terminal illness.
As Celeste tries to come to terms with her mother’s impending decline, she realises she has to confront the unspoken conflicts buried in the foundations of her family. Away from her husband, she must also face her fear of what the future holds for them both.
Full of compassion, warmth and grace, Pilgrimage is a powerful meditation on how our personal histories haunt us, and an affirmation of the hope and sustenance that may be found in our imperfect families.
Jacinta Halloran
Jacinta Halloran is a Melbourne-based writer and GP. She has written on medical science for The Sunday Age, and her short stories have been published in New Australian Stories 2 and The Pen and the Stethoscope. A former board member for the Stella Prize for Women’s Writing, Jacinta is also involved as a speaker in the Stella Schools Program. Her first novel, Dissection (2008), was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and her second, Pilgrimage (2012), and was shortlisted for the Barbara Jefferis Award. Her latest novel, The Science of Appearances, is due out in September 2016.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really liked this book. Halloran has written an insightful and realistic story of a mother's response (a pilgrimage) to her development of a terminal disease. The involvement of her daughters and the impact of the mother's pilgrimage on her daughters and all their relationships is explored. Lesser authors (I'm looking at you, Jodi P) would have ended this book in a predictable, emotive and melodramatic way, but Halloran avoids that in a very intelligent and thoughtful conclusion that kept me interested right up to the last word.