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Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Unsettled
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'The unsettled South Australian frontier near Mount Gambier is a strange and difficult place for a Galway family trying to make sense of their new world.

'Rosanna and brother Skelly long to escape. Their older brother Edwin races against poets in steeplechases and schemes over cattle, carts and cards to get ahead. They are all half in love with a visiting priest and a disturbing Irish play about their ancestors. 

'When she goes to work at a nearby station, Rosanna is caught up in a string of events—throwing a horserace, the allure of a visiting actor, violent threats to her Boandik friends, and the wreck of the Admella—that lead to a reckoning with the land, its histories, its religions and its ancient and recent cultures.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Affiliation Notes

  • This work has been affiliated with the Irishness in Australian Literature dataset because it contains Irish characters, settings, tropes or themes.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Balmain, Glebe - Leichhardt - Balmain area, Sydney Inner West, Sydney, New South Wales,: Ligature , 2019 .
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      Extent: 471p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 22 November 2019.
      ISBN: 9781925883244

Works about this Work

Review of ‘Unsettled’ by Gay Lynch Jen Banyard , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of Unsettled Gay Lynch , 2019 single work novel
Michael Hannan Reviews Unsettled by Gay Lynch Michael Hannan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 28 2022;

— Review of Unsettled Gay Lynch , 2019 single work novel

'What does it mean to tell the stories of one’s ancestors? How do human beings endure landscapes dominated by scarcity, isolation, gruelling labour, and patriarchal cruelty? And what is the price to be paid for survival?'(Introduction)

Old and New Frontiers : Gay Lynch’s Unsettled Carmel Bendon , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2020;

— Review of Unsettled Gay Lynch , 2019 single work novel

'Readers expect historical fiction novels not only to evoke authentically a particular time and place but also to be accessible and relatable to modern sensibilities by way of the problems that the characters face. In Unsettled author Gay Lynch sets out to do just this, by drawing on some of her own family’s stories and on factual events and persons in the Mt Gambier area of south-east South Australia and Melbourne, in the second half of the nineteenth century while, at the same time, having her characters deal with issues that are very familiar to 21st century Australians.' (Introduction)

Unsettling Histories of the Irish in Australia Brigid Magner , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 24 no. 2 2020;

— Review of Unsettled Gay Lynch , 2019 single work novel
'Unsettled is an Irish settler-colonial novel which follows a family from Galway to South Australia in the 1850s. Author Gay Lynch is preoccupied with the psychological baggage and apocryphal stories carried by these Galway Lynches to Booandik country, near modernday Mount Gambier.' (Introduction)
Unsettling Histories of the Irish in Australia Brigid Magner , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 24 no. 2 2020;

— Review of Unsettled Gay Lynch , 2019 single work novel
'Unsettled is an Irish settler-colonial novel which follows a family from Galway to South Australia in the 1850s. Author Gay Lynch is preoccupied with the psychological baggage and apocryphal stories carried by these Galway Lynches to Booandik country, near modernday Mount Gambier.' (Introduction)
Old and New Frontiers : Gay Lynch’s Unsettled Carmel Bendon , 2020 single work review
— Appears in: Verity La , November 2020;

— Review of Unsettled Gay Lynch , 2019 single work novel

'Readers expect historical fiction novels not only to evoke authentically a particular time and place but also to be accessible and relatable to modern sensibilities by way of the problems that the characters face. In Unsettled author Gay Lynch sets out to do just this, by drawing on some of her own family’s stories and on factual events and persons in the Mt Gambier area of south-east South Australia and Melbourne, in the second half of the nineteenth century while, at the same time, having her characters deal with issues that are very familiar to 21st century Australians.' (Introduction)

Michael Hannan Reviews Unsettled by Gay Lynch Michael Hannan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Mascara Literary Review , no. 28 2022;

— Review of Unsettled Gay Lynch , 2019 single work novel

'What does it mean to tell the stories of one’s ancestors? How do human beings endure landscapes dominated by scarcity, isolation, gruelling labour, and patriarchal cruelty? And what is the price to be paid for survival?'(Introduction)

Review of ‘Unsettled’ by Gay Lynch Jen Banyard , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2022 2023;

— Review of Unsettled Gay Lynch , 2019 single work novel
Last amended 29 Aug 2024 17:55:17
Subjects:
  • Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier area, South East South Australia, South Australia,
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