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Mary-Ellen Mullane Mary-Ellen Mullane i(A131100 works by)
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Mary-Ellen Mullane has worked as a social worker, specialising in child and family health, and in film production. 'She has won numerous awards as a documentary producer for films and television series including Parent Rescue, Divorce Stories, Growing Up and Going Home, Maternity Unit.'

Mullane has completed a Masters of Arts in Creative Writing, Macquarie University.

Source: Random House website, http://www.randomhouse.com.au/
Sighted: 23/02/2010

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y separately published work icon Once on a Road North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2010 Z1670743 2010 single work novel

'Naomi Adams is a midwife, a mother and a grandmother. Her two young grandsons, Chris and Max, have been the centre of her world since both her sons were killed in a car accident. Her daughter-in-law, Zoe, was said to have been driving on that devastating afternoon. Zoe is badly injured in the crash and once she recovers, still ruined, she walks away from her boys and from Naomi for eight years.

'But now she wants her sons back. And Naomi can't let them go.

'Exploring the age-old themes of duty and love, exile and return, this is the story of Naomi and Zoe. It is also the story of Chris and Max, who adore their grandmother but long for their mother, whether or not she knows what's best for them. The choice they make has grave repercussions for the whole family, which will reverberate for years to come.

'Beautifully told in spare, vivid prose Once on a Road is a superb first novel about the complexity of families and how, eventually, even the most tangled and unhappy relationships can be redeemed by forgiveness and love.' (From the publisher's website.)

2011 winner SWW Book Awards Fiction
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