Meg Bignell Meg Bignell i(15408297 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

BiographyHistory

Formerly a nurse and a television weather presenter, Meg Bignell published her first novel in 2019. At the time, she was based on the East Coast of Tasmania.

Most Referenced Works

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Angry Women's Choir Melbourne : Michael Joseph , 2022 24422831 2022 single work novel

'By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story about a remarkable group of women who discover they are all capable of incredible things – if they’re strong enough, and angry enough, to take up the cause.

'Once in a while, everyone needs to be heard.

'Freycinet Barnes has built herself the perfect existence. With beautiful children, a successful husband and a well-ordered schedule, it’s a life so full she simply doesn’t fit.

'When she steps outside her calendar and is accidentally thrown into the generous bosom of the West Moonah Women’s Choir, she finds music, laughter, friendship and a humming wellspring of rage. With the ready acceptance of the colourful choristers, Frey learns that voices can move mountains, fury can be kind and life can do with a bit of ruining.

'Together, Frey and the choir sing their anger, they breathe it in and stitch it up, belt it out and spin it into a fierce, driving beat that will kick the system square in the balls, and possibly demolish them all.' (Publication summary)

2025 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards Premier's Prize for Fiction
2023 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
Last amended 20 Jan 2020 11:12:51
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X