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Issue Details: First known date: 2023... 2023 Salt River Road
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'Introducing an exciting new voice in Australian fiction: Molly Schmidt, winner of the 2022 City of Fremantle Hungerford Award. Salt River Road is a compelling coming-of-age novel about grief and healing set in a small town in the 1970s.

'In the aftermath of their mother’s death, the Tetley siblings’ lives are falling apart. Left to fend for themselves as their family farm goes to ruins, Rose sets out to escape the grief and mess of home. When she meets Noongar Elders Patsy and Herbert, she finds herself drawn into a home where she has the chance to discover the strength of community, and to heal a wound her family has carried for a generation.

'Salt River Road is a poignant exploration of healing and resilience, small-town racism and the power of human connection.' (Publication summary)

Notes

  • Author's note: In honour of the Traditional Custodians of Noongar Boodjar. For the Goreng and Menang Noongar people, with deep respect and gratitude.

    This book is dedicated to my magnificent mother, Jenny Schmidt. And to my father, Gavin Jurgen Schmidt, the heart of this story. It is also for Little Molly. We did it. We can tell a different story now.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Fremantle, Fremantle area, South West Perth, Perth, Western Australia,: Fremantle Press , 2023 .
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      Extent: 288p.
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      •  Published October 2023

      ISBN: 9781760992620

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Works about this Work

Review of ‘Salt River Road’ by Molly Schmidt Jen Bowden , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2024 2024;

— Review of Salt River Road Molly Schmidt , 2023 single work novel
Review of ‘Salt River Road’ by Molly Schmidt Jen Bowden , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Editor's Desk - 2024 2024;

— Review of Salt River Road Molly Schmidt , 2023 single work novel
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