Gender:
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2020 Varuna Fellowships — Varuna Publisher Introduction Program Fellowship Fellowship for development of One Illumined Thread.
Awards for Works
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One Illumined Thread
Sydney
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Fourth Estate
,
2023
25980189
2023
single work
novel
historical fiction
'In Judea, under the brutal rule of King Herod, a woman yearns for a child but is outcast when she does not fall pregnant. Against all convention, she masters the art of glassblowing, a creative act she believes will keep her dream of motherhood alive.
'In Renaissance Florence, a young wife is left penniless by her hopelessly unfaithful husband, and struggles to find a way to support herself and her young son.
'And in contemporary Australia, a talented textile conservator, devastated by loss, is desperate to regain control of her life. Each woman wants something that seems unattainable, and it will take all their courage, creativity and determination to achieve it.'
Source: Publisher's blurb
- 2024 shortlisted SWW Book Awards — Fiction
- 2023 longlisted Mark and Evette Moran Nib Award for Literature
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