A new prize to honour women’s writing (similar to the Orange Prize in the UK) is being founded by a group of young women writers. They asked me to speak at the launch of the prize, in Melbourne in early September. Stella of course refers to Stella Miles Franklin, the writer whose bequest has enabled [...]
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Just in time for Mother’s Day, the paperback edition. With a new chapter. And a list of the addresses of the key places in the book (people have been visiting them!) and lots of quotes from nice reviews of the book from when it first appeared. With the same beautiful cover as the hardcopy. Price: [...] Solace from a familiar portraitAngela Bennie In its construction, its mosaic-like structures, its criss-crossing paths of cause and effect, what The Lost Mother ultimately reveals, thanks to Summers’s skill, is that a painting — or a book, or any work of art — is not just an accumulation or manipulation of paints or pencil or words on a page. I have just learned from my publisher that my first book is now officially out of print and will not be republished. The book has had an amazing life – almost 33 years of being continuously in print – and I want to celebrate this. But of course I am sad that it has now [...] |
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