Madeleine Gray Madeleine Gray i(26516840 works by)
Gender: Female
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'Madeleine Gray is a writer and critic from Sydney. She has written arts criticism for SRB, OverlandMeanjin, The Lifted Brow, The Saturday Paper, The Monthly, etc. In 2019 she was a CA-SRB Emerging Critic, and in 2021 she was a finalist for the Walkley Pascall Prize for Arts Criticism, a finalist for the Woollahra Digital Literary Non-fiction award, and a recipient of a Neilma Sidney Literary Travel grant. She has an MSt in English from the University of Oxford and is a current doctoral candidate at the University of Manchester, researching contemporary women's autobiographical literary theory. Green Dot is her first novel.' (https://www.allenandunwin.com/browse/book/Madeleine-Gray-Green-Dot-9781761068614

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y separately published work icon Green Dot Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2023 26516858 2023 single work novel

'A witty, profound and painfully relatable debut novel exploring solitude, desire, and the allure of chasing something that promises nothing.

'Hera Stephen is clawing through her mid-twenties, working as an underpaid comment moderator in an overly air-conditioned newsroom by day and kicking around Sydney with her two best friends by night. Instead of money or stability, she has so far accrued one ex-girlfriend, several hundred hangovers and a dog-eared novel collection.

'While everyone around her seems to have slipped effortlessly into adulthood, Hera has spent the years since school caught between feeling that she is purposefully rejecting traditional markers of success to forge a life of her own and wondering if she's actually just being left behind. Then she meets Arthur, an older, married colleague. Intoxicated by the promise of ordinary happiness he represents, Hera falls headlong into a workplace romance that everyone, including her, knows is doomed to fail.

'With her daringly specific and intimate voice, Madeleine Gray has created an irresistible and messy love story about the terrible allure of wanting something that promises nothing; about the joys and indignities of coming into adulthood against the pitfalls of the twenty-first century; and the winding, torturous and often very funny journey we take in deciding who we are and who we want to be.' (Publication summary)

2024 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2024 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2024 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2024 longlisted APA Book Design Awards Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover designed by Alissa Dinallo.
2024 shortlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
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