Zoë Morrison Zoë Morrison i(A117400 works by)
Gender: Female
The material on this page is available to AustLit subscribers. If you are a subscriber or are from a subscribing organisation, please log in to gain full access. To explore options for subscribing to this unique teaching, research, and publishing resource for Australian culture and storytelling, please contact us or find out more.

BiographyHistory

Dr Zoë Morrison has been a researcher at Monash University and the University of Melbourne. She wrote The Morrison Report, 'an independent investigation into the reporting of sexual abuse and response to sexual assault within the Anglican Church' and has also worked 'on legislative reform and family violence at the Victorian Law Reform Commission'.

Source: Australian Women's Book Review, 17.2 (2005)

Most Referenced Works

Notes

  • This author is more generally represented with the name in this form: Zoë Morrison

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon Music and Freedom Sydney : Random House Australia , 2016 9331945 2016 single work novel

'A gripping and beautifully written novel that brings to mind Notes on a Scandal and Elizabeth is Missing.

'Alice Haywood is born on an orange farm in country New South Wales. She begins playing the piano when she is three, taught by her English mother who is unhappy in Australia and in a desolate, violent marriage. When Alice is seven, her mother, desperate for her daughter to leave if she can't, sends her to boarding school in the bleak north of England, and there Alice stays for the next ten years. Then she's offered a scholarship to the Royal College of Music in London. That year, on a summer school in Oxford, she meets Edward, an economics professor, who sweeps her off her feet.

'But underneath his suave demeanor, Edward is a damaged man. He traps her into marriage and Alice is stuck, oppressed by his cruelty, in the Oxford home he has bought for her. After a disastrous recital of Rachmaninoff's Second Concerto, she stops playing and her dreams of becoming a concert pianist evaporate.

'Alice and Edward have a son, Richard, whom she adores. He too is a talented musician. But as Richard grows up he becomes more and more distant, and ultimately Alice can't find it in herself to carry on. Then she starts to hear the most beautiful music coming from the walls of her house.

'Inspiring and unusual, this novel's love story is that of a woman who must embrace life again if she is to survive. With a wonderful cast led by Alice, the novel explores the dark terrain of violence and the transformative powers of music, and love.' (Publication summary)

2014 commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer

As 'Some Notes on Music and Freedom'.

2017 shortlisted Voss Literary Prize
2017 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
2017 shortlisted ASAL Awards ALS Gold Medal
2017 longlisted Indie Awards Debut Fiction
2016 winner Readings Prizes Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
Last amended 18 Oct 2018 13:44:22
Other mentions of "" in AustLit:
    X