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Issue Details: First known date: 2015... 2015 Six Bedrooms
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'Six Bedrooms is about growing up; about discovering sex; and about coming of age. Full of glorious angst, embarrassment and small achievements.

'Hot afternoons on school ovals, the terrifying promise of losing your virginity, sneaking booze from your mother's pantry, the painful sophistication and squalor of your first share house, cancer, losing a parent.

'Tegan Bennett Daylight's powerful collection captures the dangerous, tilting terrain of becoming adult. Over these ten stories, we find acute portrayals of loss and risk, of sexual longing and wreckage, blunders and betrayals. Threaded through the collection is the experience of troubled, destructive Tasha, whose life unravels in unexpected ways, and who we come to love for her defiance, her wit and her vulnerability.

'Stunningly written, and shot through with humour and menace, Six Bedrooms is a mesmerising collection of moments from adolescence through adulthood, a mix of all the potent ingredients that make up a life.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • A selection of thematically linked short stories.
  • Dedication: To my mother
  • Epigraph: ...the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over. –Tim Winton 'Aquifer'

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • North Sydney, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Random House Australia , 2015 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 215p.
      Note/s:
      • Published: 01/07/2015
      ISBN: 9780857989130

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Works about this Work

The Stella Interview : Tegan Bennett Daylight 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: The Stella Interviews 2018;

'Tegan Bennett Daylight is the author of 2016 Stella Prize shortlisted book, Six Bedrooms. We caught up with Tegan to talk about her inspirations, writing process, and the significant mentors who have supported her along the way.' (Introduction)

Books 2015 #1 AF , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19 December 2015;
Slipping the Curtain Open Georgia Blain , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 377 2015; (p. 24)

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
Tegan Bennett Daylight : Six Bedrooms Tracy Sorensen , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2015;

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
Pungent Observations on the Twists of Modern Life Peter Pierce , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 August 2015; (p. 29)

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
The Power of Possibilities Felicity Plunkett , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 July 2015; (p. 18-19)

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
Six Bedrooms - Review Thuy On , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 July 2015; (p. 17)

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
Pungent Observations on the Twists of Modern Life Peter Pierce , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 August 2015; (p. 29)

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
Tegan Bennett Daylight : Six Bedrooms Tracy Sorensen , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2015;

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
Slipping the Curtain Open Georgia Blain , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 377 2015; (p. 24)

— Review of Six Bedrooms Tegan Bennett Daylight , 2015 selected work short story
Tegan Bennett Daylight Caroline Baum (interviewer), 2015 single work interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 July 2015; (p. 24-25) The Age , 18 July 2015; (p. 24)
Books 2015 #1 AF , 2015 single work review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19 December 2015;
The Stella Interview : Tegan Bennett Daylight 2018 single work interview
— Appears in: The Stella Interviews 2018;

'Tegan Bennett Daylight is the author of 2016 Stella Prize shortlisted book, Six Bedrooms. We caught up with Tegan to talk about her inspirations, writing process, and the significant mentors who have supported her along the way.' (Introduction)

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