Anne Brinsden Anne Brinsden i(17755878 works by)
Gender: Female
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Anne Brinsden was raised in the Mallee in northern Victoria, the setting of her debut novel, Wearing Paper Dresses. She trained as a teacher, and in 2019 was living in Melbourne. Her short fiction has won and been commended at the Albury Write Around the Murray short story competition (2017) and the Williamstown Literary Festival short story competition (2018).

She published her debut novel in 2019.

Sources include Pan Macmillan.

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y separately published work icon Wearing Paper Dresses Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2019 17755983 2019 single work novel

'You can talk about living in the Mallee. And you can talk about a Mallee tree. And you can talk about the Mallee itself: a land and a place full of red sand and short stubby trees. Silent skies. The undulating scorch of summer plains. Quiet, on the surface of things.

'But Elise wasn't from the Mallee, and she knew nothing of its ways.

'Discover the world of a small homestead perched on the sunburnt farmland of northern Victoria. Meet Elise, whose urbane 1950s glamour is rudely transplanted to the pragmatic red soil of the Mallee when her husband returns to work the family farm. But you cannot uproot a plant and expect it to thrive. And so it is with Elise. Her meringues don't impress the shearers, the locals scoff at her Paris fashions, her husband works all day in the back paddock, and the drought kills everything but the geraniums she despises.

'As their mother withdraws more and more into herself, her spirited, tearaway daughters, Marjorie and Ruby, wild as weeds, are left to raise themselves as best they can. Until tragedy strikes, and Marjorie flees to the city determined to leave her family behind. And there she stays, leading a very different life, until the boy she loves draws her back to the land she can't forget...'  (Publication summary)

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