Born: Established: Jerilderie, Tocumwal - Jerilderie area, Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales, ;
Gender:
Female
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Awards for Works
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The Dressmaker
Potts Point
:
Duffy and Snellgrove
,
2000
Z668510
2000
single work
novel
(taught in 1 units)
Dungatar is a small town like any other in the Victorian wheatlands - except that the women dress like Paris models. This is the story of the exotic Tilly, a talented and beautiful misfit, who returns from Europe to Dungatar to nurse her mad old mother. Her reappearance after twenty years is met with suspicion and malice from the eccentric locals until they discover her startling dressmaking skills. Gradually, she wins over the town with her fabulous creations. Then she falls in love and things start to go terribly wrong. (Source: Trove)
- 2007 nominated Braille Book of the Year Award
- 2001 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
- 2000 shortlisted Australian Booksellers Association Awards — BookPeople Book of the Year
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