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Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 Cedar Valley
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'On the first day of summer in 1993, two strangers arrive in the town of Cedar Valley. One is a calm looking man in a brown suit. He makes his way down the main street and walks directly to Cedar Valley Curios & Oldwares, sitting down on the footpath, where he leans silently against the big glass window for hours.

'The other is 21-year-old Benny Miller. Fresh out of university, Benny has come to Cedar Valley in search of information about her mother, Vivian, who has recently died. Vivian's mysterious old friend, Odette Fisher, has offered Benny her modest pale green cottage for as long as she wants it. Is there any connection between the man on the pavement and Benny's quest to learn more about her mother? Holly Throsby is the perfect guide as Cedar Valley and its inhabitants slowly reveal their secrets.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Dedication: for Alvy

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2018 .
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      Extent: 350p.
      Reprinted: 2020 (paperback)
      Note/s:
      • Published October 2018.

      ISBN: 9781760630560, 9781760876203 (pbk)

Other Formats

  • Also dyslexic edition
  • Also braille.
  • Also large print.

Works about this Work

y separately published work icon A Conversation with Holly Throsby Marie Matteson (interviewer), 2019 23468991 2019 single work podcast interview

'Carlton bookseller Marie Matteson chats with author and musician Holly Throsby about her second novel, Cedar Valley.'  (Production summary)

Ellipses Alice Nelson , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 408 2019; (p. 30)

'In the first few pages of Cedar Valley, a group of women gather together to console one another after a calamitous event shatters the predictable languor of their small rural town. Pulling chairs into a circle, they pour glasses of brandy in the soft light of early evening and reflect on the day’s events, offering succour and speculation as the sky darkens around them. It is this compelling sense of community, with its intricate webs and unexpected bonds, its deep sweetness and complicated anguish, that is at the heart of Holly Throsby’s new novel. Cedar Valley is essentially a charming epic of intimacy; it is this moving affirmation of the sustaining grace of community that animates and enlivens this impressive work.'  (Introduction)

Holly Throsby's Valley of Shadows David Knight , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , October no. 464 2018; (p. 11)

'With her second novel Cedar Valley, author and songwriter Holly Throsby transports Adelaide's Somerton Man mystery to a small town in New South Wales for a fascinating literary twist on the infamous cold case.'

Holly Throsby's Valley of Shadows David Knight , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: The Adelaide Review , October no. 464 2018; (p. 11)

'With her second novel Cedar Valley, author and songwriter Holly Throsby transports Adelaide's Somerton Man mystery to a small town in New South Wales for a fascinating literary twist on the infamous cold case.'

Ellipses Alice Nelson , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January / February no. 408 2019; (p. 30)

'In the first few pages of Cedar Valley, a group of women gather together to console one another after a calamitous event shatters the predictable languor of their small rural town. Pulling chairs into a circle, they pour glasses of brandy in the soft light of early evening and reflect on the day’s events, offering succour and speculation as the sky darkens around them. It is this compelling sense of community, with its intricate webs and unexpected bonds, its deep sweetness and complicated anguish, that is at the heart of Holly Throsby’s new novel. Cedar Valley is essentially a charming epic of intimacy; it is this moving affirmation of the sustaining grace of community that animates and enlivens this impressive work.'  (Introduction)

y separately published work icon A Conversation with Holly Throsby Marie Matteson (interviewer), 2019 23468991 2019 single work podcast interview

'Carlton bookseller Marie Matteson chats with author and musician Holly Throsby about her second novel, Cedar Valley.'  (Production summary)

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