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'In the summer that she turns seventeen Grace comes to the threshold of a world full of richness and danger, love and loss, innocence and exploitation. That summer Grace spends a lot of time dreaming, watched by her mother, the once beautiful Mara, who has become an acid-tongued, dissolute drunkard, and Porora, the fierce Rarotongan matriarch who runs the Paradise Bar where Grace works.
'Set on a beautiful Pacific Island, Nights with Grace is about first love. It is a fresh, sensual and bitter-sweet story, as evocative as a Gauguin painting.(Publication summary))
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Dedication: To Dick, Elsie and Renee
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Finding the Language of Sexual Ecstasy
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Author , Summer vol. 23 no. 4 1992; (p. 18-20) -
Career Takes a Write Turn
1991-1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 January 1991; (p. 37) -
Book Reviews
1991
single work
review
— Appears in: The Queensland Writer , vol. 2 no. 2 1991; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Nights with Grace 1990 single work novel -
Our Best Fiction
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , December-January vol. 2 no. 6 1990-1991; (p. 44-45) -
Complex Challenges
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December-January (1990-1991) no. 127 1990; (p. 14-15)
— Review of Nights with Grace 1990 single work novel ; Strange Objects 1990 single work novel
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Untitled
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , August vol. 70 no. 1007 1990; (p. 20)
— Review of Nights with Grace 1990 single work novel -
A Little Treasure
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 9 October vol. 112 no. 5740 1990; (p. 124-125)
— Review of Nights with Grace 1990 single work novel -
A No-No, and Uh-Oh, a Ho-Hum - and Then There Was Grace
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Australian Magazine , 20-21 October 1990; (p. 6)
— Review of Nights with Grace 1990 single work novel ; In this House 1990 selected work short story ; Oasis 1990 selected work novella ; Theatre Daze 1990 single work novel -
The Relentless Here and Now
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 17 November 1990; (p. B8)
— Review of Nights with Grace 1990 single work novel ; Women and Horses 1990 single work novel -
Tormenting and Being Tormented
1990
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 17 November 1990; (p. 7)
— Review of Nights with Grace 1990 single work novel ; Sweethearts 1978 single work novel ; Women and Horses 1990 single work novel -
Our Best Fiction
1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Independent Monthly , December-January vol. 2 no. 6 1990-1991; (p. 44-45) -
Career Takes a Write Turn
1991-1990
single work
criticism
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 January 1991; (p. 37) -
Finding the Language of Sexual Ecstasy
1992
single work
criticism
— Appears in: Australian Author , Summer vol. 23 no. 4 1992; (p. 18-20)
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