Suzanne McCourt Suzanne McCourt i(A113219 works by)
Gender: Female
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Originally from South Australia, Suzanne McCourt is a Melbourne-based writer.

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y separately published work icon The Tulip Tree Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2021 20449598 2021 single work novel historical fiction

'A vivid, immersive, historical saga from beloved author Suzanne McCourt.

'Brothers Henryk and Adam Radecki’s relationship is one of fraught love and jealously. Henryk, unhappily married, becomes a rich and successful industrialist, while Adi, a devoted vet, finds and loses love. Their bond is tested throughout their lives, from the 1920s, against the background of Poland’s tragic and tumultuous relationship with Russia, until 1954 in the Snowy Mountains of Australia.

'Family secrets constantly threaten to pull their lives apart, as Adi’s wife Ela and son Stefan provide a dramatic twist to this riveting tale. Caught up in momentous events, McCourt’s characters reveal the power of the moral choices we make in our lives.

'Beautifully written, full of the detail of everyday life, its joys and suffering, The Tulip Tree is engrossing historical fiction at its very best, a profoundly moving story of love, sacrifice and loyalty.' (Publication summary)

2021 highly commended HNSA Historical Novel Prize Adult
y separately published work icon The Lost Child Melbourne : Text Publishing , 2014 6740175 2014 single work novel historical fiction

'From the headland, we look across to the lighthouse on Seal Island where Mr Hammett has to take the gas bottle to keep the light flashing at night. Aunt Cele says there is no land between us and the bottom of the world where everything is white ice and there are penguins as big as men, but I know this already because Dunc has told me.

'Sylvie is five. It's the 1950s and she lives in Burley Point, a fishing village south of the Coorong on Australia's wild southern coast. She worships her older brother Dunc. She tries to make sense of her brooding mother, and her moody father who abandons the family to visit The Trollop, Layle Lewis, who lives across the lagoon.

'It's hard to keep secrets in a small town, but when Dunc goes missing, Sylvie is terrified that she is the cause. Now her father is angry all the time; her mother won't leave the house or stop cleaning. The bush and the birds and the endless beach are Sylvie's only salvation, apart from her teacher, Miss Taylor.

In the tradition of the novels of Anne Tyler and Eudora Welty, The Lost Child is a beautifully written story about family and identity and growing up. Sylvie is a charming narrator with a big heart and a sharp eye for the comic moment. As the years go by she learns how tiny events can changes entire lives, and how leaving might be the only solution when the the world will never be the same again. ' (Publisher's blurb)

2015 longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award
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