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'Daisy is married to her job, Shirley de Young is engaged to Jack but would as soon be married to herself, while Joannie has left her husband for a fling with the movie star, Ralph Fiennes. Brad is inspired by the Eureka uprising to break up with his girlfriend, and an unexpected influx of babies - two thousand of them - calls into question the meaning of Jenny's life.
Flitting from Sydney to Melbourne, Canberra to California, this loosely linked collection of stories shines a bright fluorescent light on family, friendships, work, love and loss.' (From the publisher's website.)
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Dedication: For Phillip
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
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The Picks of the Crop
2011
single work
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— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26-27) The judges of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Awards comment on each of the fifteen shortlisted titles. Morag Fraser and Maria Tumarkin comment on the non-fiction titles, David McCooey on the poetry titles and Jo Case and Chris Flynn on the fiction titles. -
Making Short Work of Literature
2010
single work
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— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2010; (p. 25) -
Dazzling Tales Herald New Talents
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 October 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of Having Cried Wolf 2010 selected work short story ; Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story -
Cover Notes
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 October 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel ; Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story -
Off the Shelf : Stories
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 September 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story
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Untitled
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: Bookseller + Publisher Magazine , August vol. 90 no. 1 2010; (p. 42)
— Review of Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story -
Off the Shelf : Stories
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 4 September 2010; (p. 26)
— Review of Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story -
Cover Notes
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 3 October 2010; (p. 21)
— Review of A Darker Music 2010 single work novel ; Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story -
Dazzling Tales Herald New Talents
2010
single work
review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 October 2010; (p. 30)
— Review of Having Cried Wolf 2010 selected work short story ; Like Being a Wife 2009 selected work short story -
Making Short Work of Literature
2010
single work
column
— Appears in: The Age , 6 November 2010; (p. 25) -
The Picks of the Crop
2011
single work
column
— Appears in: The Saturday Age , 6 August 2011; (p. 26-27) The judges of the 2011 Age Book of the Year Awards comment on each of the fifteen shortlisted titles. Morag Fraser and Maria Tumarkin comment on the non-fiction titles, David McCooey on the poetry titles and Jo Case and Chris Flynn on the fiction titles.
Awards
- 2011 shortlisted The Age Book of the Year Award — Fiction Prize
- 2011 shortlisted Barbara Jefferis Award
- 2009 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
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