Jane Abbott Jane Abbott i(9496843 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: English
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Born in the United Kingdom but raised on Sydney's lower North Shore, Jane Abbott is a self-proclaimed gypsy and advocate for environmental and humanitarian issue. She has been a jillaroo, nurse, secretary, short-time teacher, office administrator and at one stage pursued a career in marketing. Her second novel, Watershed, was written in 2013. It received a Commendation in the 2014 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript, and secured Abbott a place in the Australian Capital Territory's Writers' Hardcopy Professional Development Program for Australian Writers (Fiction Edition). It was through this program that she met her future literary agent.

Abbott mostly divides her time between Melbourne and central Victoria.

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y separately published work icon Elegy Sydney : Random House Australia , 2016 9663236 2016 single work novel young adult fantasy

'Everybody knows everyone in Kincasey, and nothing ever happens. That's what Jenny thinks when she moves there – until she meets the mysterious Michael Webster.

'But when Michael gets into a fight with the town bully, long-held resentments simmer to the surface, loyalties are tested, and Jenny finds herself the centre of attention. Her situation isn't helped by a deepening friendship with Michael's stepbrother, Gabe, or her jealousy of Gabe's beautiful but aloof sister, Caitlin.

'Caitlin is the only one who knows the terrible truth: this isn't the first life she and Michael have lived. They have a destiny to fulfil – and it's time for Michael's powers to awaken. But what use is power if it can't give you what you most desire?' (Publication summary)

2017 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
2016 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Young Adult Division Novel
y separately published work icon Watershed North Sydney : Penguin Random House Australia , 2016 9496983 2016 single work novel fantasy horror science fiction

'Devoid of rain, the earth has shrunk to dust and salt, hemmed by a swollen sea. Survivors gather to re-establish order but it's nothing like before. It is Jeremiah's world. Commanded by the cruel Garrick, Jem is a Watchman and hunter of Disses: rebels who dare to challenge the Tower and its ruling Council. Loner by design and killer by nature, he's unapologetically part of a cruel regime until a new assignment exposes a web of deceit, and past sins demand their reckoning. When a young boy elicits his sympathy, and an enigmatic woman his interest, Jem is made to question everything he believes before undertaking one last terrifying mission. Now he must do unto others if he's to take care of his own' (Publication blurb).

2014 commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer
2016 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Division Novel
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