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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 The Rose Notes : A Novel
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'Combining strong and quirky characters with the natural Australian landscape, The Rose Notes explores themes of isolation and ageing, and the truth behind a family's buried secrets.' The Australian Literaray Management website.

Notes

  • Dedication: For Ben and Ant (for all the love and light)
  • Author's note: The region of Coolabarradin with its outlying farms, including Mamerbrook, is a fictional place, modelled on the southern Riverina in New South Wales, Australia. All of the characters in the book, with the exception of the Southern Bell Frog and the Plains Wanderer, are fictional and bear no relation to any person, living or dead.
  • Epigraph: 'Territory, you see, is not necessarily the place you feed in. It's the place in which you stay...where you know every nook and cranny...where you know by heart every refuge...where you are invincible to the pursuer. I've even measured it with sticklebacks.' Konrad Lorenz (comment made to Bruce Chatwin, published in The Songlines)

    'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.' Gertrude Stein.

    ' Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, - And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul... Robert Browning (from Bishop Blougram's Apology)

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Camberwell, Camberwell - Kew area, Melbourne - Inner South, Melbourne, Victoria,: Penguin , 2005 .
      Extent: [6], 387p.p.
      ISBN: 0143003178

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

In Short : Fiction Michael McGirr , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 June 2005; (p. 26)

— Review of The Rose Notes : A Novel Andrea Mayes , 2005 single work novel ; Millie and the Night Heron Catherine Bateson , 2005 single work children's fiction ; Space : New Writing no. 2 2005 periodical issue
Take Three Ian McFarlane , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 22 May 2005; (p. 14)

— Review of Affection : A Novel Ian Townsend , 2005 single work novel ; The Rose Notes : A Novel Andrea Mayes , 2005 single work novel
Looking Out and in at the Power of the Past Lisa Gorton , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 May 2005; (p. 5)

— Review of The Singing Stephanie Bishop , 2005 single work novel ; The Rose Notes : A Novel Andrea Mayes , 2005 single work novel
Looking Out and in at the Power of the Past Lisa Gorton , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 May 2005; (p. 5)

— Review of The Singing Stephanie Bishop , 2005 single work novel ; The Rose Notes : A Novel Andrea Mayes , 2005 single work novel
Take Three Ian McFarlane , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 22 May 2005; (p. 14)

— Review of Affection : A Novel Ian Townsend , 2005 single work novel ; The Rose Notes : A Novel Andrea Mayes , 2005 single work novel
In Short : Fiction Michael McGirr , 2005 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 June 2005; (p. 26)

— Review of The Rose Notes : A Novel Andrea Mayes , 2005 single work novel ; Millie and the Night Heron Catherine Bateson , 2005 single work children's fiction ; Space : New Writing no. 2 2005 periodical issue
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