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y separately published work icon Picnic at Mount Disappointment single work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 2017... 2017 Picnic at Mount Disappointment
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'In this wise, witty and moving story, fifteen-year-old Lucy arrives from inner-city Melbourne to live on a farm in the early 1980s. Wandong hosts the second largest truck and country music festival in the southern hemisphere…and nothing else.' (Publication abstract)

Notes

  • Novel in verse form.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,: Ginninderra Press , 2017 .
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      Extent: 312p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 1 March 2017
      ISBN: 9781760413033
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Awards

2018 highly commended SWW Book Awards — Fiction
2017 winner The Woollahra Digital Literary Award — Fiction
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