SWEET OLD WORLD by Deborah Robertson Format: Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781741668254 Imprint: Vintage Australia Released in March,

2012 Reading Group Questions

1. Why does David Quinn never talk about his desire to be a father? 2. A mans character is his fate. (Heraclitis) Do you see this as true of Davids story? And of your own life? 3. What do you think the book has to say about contemporary manhood? 4. What role does the past play in David and Tanias love affair? And what is the significance of the islands past? 5. Discuss the subject of trust in the book. 6. What does the book suggest to you about humans relationship with animals, and our relationship to our own animal bodies? 7. Esther feels that she has lost her imagination, but what has imagination got to do with love in the book? 8. Is anything ever really simple anymore?

Reading Group Questions from Sweet Old World by Deborah Robertson Available in bookshops March 2012 | ISBN: 9781741668254 Imprint: Vintage Australia | Publisher: Random House Australia
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