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y separately published work icon Mood Indigo selected work   novel  
Issue Details: First known date: 1999... 1999 Mood Indigo
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'From the 1989 Australian/Vogel Literary Award Winner comes an immediately engaging novel-in-stories, written in a deceptively simple style. It tells the story of Rose, three or four years old as the novel opens, a teenager as it ends.

'Rose loves the beach, her sister, her mother. Most of all, she loves her Dad, and Dad's music. But too few people want to hear him, and sometimes Rose and Wanda and Mum have to fit uncomfortably into other people's lives.

'Mandy Sayer uncovers the powerlessness of a child with an entirely steady hand. Her social observations are often bleak, yet she draws the reader into a deep and lasting involvement with all her characters, and especially with the feisty, irrestibile Rose.' (Publication summary)

Contents

* Contents derived from the Milsons Point, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,:Vintage Australia , 1999 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Blind Luck, Mandy Sayer , single work novel

'Sequel to the 1989 Australian/Vogel Literary Award winner, 'Moon Indigo', which was the author's first novel. The book continues the story of Rose, whose quick-witted and sharp personality help her endure and even thrive as she copes with her mother, who is lost between lovers and cocktails, and with the desertion of her father. The author plans a third volume to complete a trilogy about Rose.' (Publication summary)

Mood Indigo, Mandy Sayer , single work novel
This novel and its sequel Blind Luck (1993) trace the misfortunes of the Partridge family - a drug-addicted musician husband and father, an alcoholic wife and mother and three children.

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