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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2022 shortlisted Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize for 'Unnoted: Birdsong on the Road to Nowhere.'
Awards for Works
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Ladies' Rest and Writing Room
Braidwood
:
Finlay Lloyd
,
2023
27133461
2023
single work
novella
'Two young women, brought up to expect conventional lives, are thrown together in unexpected circumstances. Each has suffered a devastating loss that challenges their belief in life and themselves. It’s rare to come across a work of deep psychological insight conveyed with such verve and lightness of touch.
'Kelly sweeps the reader into the lives and passions of her two central characters and into the bustling city streets of Sydney in the 1920s. A powerfully moving book that sparkles with vitality.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2023 joint winner Finlay Lloyd 20/40 Publishing Prize
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The Rat Catcher : A Love Story
Sydney
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Brio Books
,
2022
24394426
2022
single work
novel
historical fiction
'In the sweltering summer of 1900, young wharf labourer Patrick O’Reilly is down on his luck in the slums of Sydney and homesick for Tralee. When a deadly outbreak of plague descends on the city, O’Reilly’s daydreaming mind is miles away – in the golden hair and kindly, confident air of a girl called Rosie Hughes.
'Just as he’s wondering why any girl would want a no-hoper like him, opportunity knocks with the offer of a job as a rat catcher working for the city’s Plague Department, containing the spread of disease. But the job will bring him a lot more than a pay rise and a swift education on traps and poisons.
'In the Public Lending Library, on the top floor of the Queen Victoria Building, above the bustling centre of Sydney, he comes face-to-face with a legendary rat called Old Scratch who will change the way he understands himself and the world forever.
'Drawn from Kim Kelly’s own trove of Irish-Australian family lore, The Rat Catcher is a mischievous, fast-paced fable told with her trademark compassion, a sharp eye on the epic in the ordinary, and an irrepressible love for life, in all its marvellous forms.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2022 longlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize — Adult
- 2021 shortlisted Viva La Novella Award
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