Second Sight (novel)

Second Sight (1986) is a novel by Australian writer Janine Burke. It was originally published by Greenhouse Publications in Australia in 1986.

Critical reception
Marion Halligan, writing in The Canberra Times, compared this novel with the author's first and found this to be a "sharper, briefer, more elliptical narrative, the story of one woman encountering death and depression, and weathering the experience, largely through the intervention of a magically mysterious couple who carry her off to Tuscany." Halligan concluded that the author "can use words with the sharpness and freshness and immediacy of an Impressionist painting..It is this liveliness, and not the portentousness of death, doom, despair, that gives us glimpses of the real writer that Janine Burke is in the process of becoming."

Publication history
After its original publication in 1986 in Australia by publisher Greenhouse Publications the novel was later reprinted as follows:


 * Untapped, Australian, 2021

Awards

 * Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, winner 1987