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'It has taken a lifetime for me to see that the more afraid people are of the darkness, the further into it they will flee.
'Nearing the end of her life, Meggie Tulloch takes up her pen to write a story for her granddaughter. It begins in the first years of the twentieth century, in a place where howling winds spin salt and sleet sucked up from icefloes.
'A place where lives are ruled by men, and men by the witchy sea. A place where the only thing lower than a girl in the order of things is a clever girl with accursed red hair. A place schooled in keeping secrets.
'Moving from the north-east of Scotland to the Shetland Isles to Fremantle, Australia, Elemental is a novel about the life you make from the life you are given.' (Publisher's blurb)
Notes
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Dedication:For
Edna Jean
and all grandmothers. -
Epigraph: If nothing ever changed, there would be no butterflies. -Author unknown
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Works about this Work
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Lesley Hawkes, of Amanda Curtin, Elemental
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Southerly , vol. 75 no. 1 2015; (p. 228-230)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel -
The Year’s Work in Fiction
2014
single work
review
— Appears in: Westerly , June vol. 59 no. 1 2014; (p. 124-143)
— Review of Elephants in the Bush and Other Yamatji Yarns 2013 single work prose life story ; An Elegant Young Man 2013 selected work short story ; The Incredible Here and Now 2013 single work novel ; Elemental 2013 single work novel ; Now Showing 2013 selected work short story ; The Heaven I Swallowed 2013 single work novel ; Stella's Sea 2013 single work novel ; The Young Desire It : A Novel 1937 single work novel ; Inland 1988 single work novel ; White Light 2013 selected work short story ; Knitting and Other Stories : Margaret River Short Story Competition 2013 2013 selected work short story ; The Best Australian Stories 2013 2013 selected work short story ; The Rosie Project 2013 single work novel ; Lives of the Dead 2013 selected work short story ; The Double (And Other Stories) 2013 selected work short story ; Harmless 2013 single work novel ; Letters to the End of Love 2013 single work novel ; Eyrie 2013 single work novel ; The Swan Book 2013 single work novel -
Elemental by Amanda Curtin
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 14-15 December 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel -
Salt and Tradition
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 354 2013; (p. 54)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel -
All the Elements of a Novelist's Art
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 4 June 2013; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel
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Elements Coalesce in a Hard Life
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 25-26 May 2013; (p. 25)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel -
Well Read
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 25 May 2013; (p. 28)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel ; Who We Were 2013 single work novel -
Elemental
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 28 May 2013; (p. 6)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel -
All the Elements of a Novelist's Art
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 4 June 2013; (p. 6-7)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel -
Salt and Tradition
2013
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , September no. 354 2013; (p. 54)
— Review of Elemental 2013 single work novel
Awards
- 2014 shortlisted Western Australian Premier's Book Awards — Fiction
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cScotland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
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Shetland Islands,
cScotland,ccUnited Kingdom (UK),cWestern Europe, Europe,
- Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,
- 1891-1905