Also writes as: Rosie MacDonald
Born: Established:
c
Malaysia,c
Southeast Asia,
South and East Asia,
Asia,
;
Gender:
Female
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Other publications include:
Flash fiction : 'In The Park' : Seizure : A Launchpad for Australian Writing
'Corporal Punishment Abuses All', The Age: 25 June 2007
'Eco-Friendly Pets', The Sydney Morning Herald: 25 November 2007
Days of Innocence and Wonder
Sydney
:
Picador
,
2023
26827740
2023
single work
novel
'When someone is taken away, what is left behind?
'All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend and her tormented wondering about whether she could have stopped it.
'When Till, now twenty-three, senses danger approaching again, she flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wirowie, a town on its knees, she stops and slowly begins creating a new life and home. But there is something menacing here too. Till must decide whether she can finally face down, even pursue, the darkness - or whether she'll flee once more and never stop running.
'Both a reckoning with fear and loss, and a recognition of the power of belonging, Days of Innocence and Wonder is a richly textured, deeply felt new novel from one of Australia's finest writers.' (Publication summary)
Wolfe Island
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2019
17117918
2019
single work
novel
'Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation...
'Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, desperate, begging for sanctuary. For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself - with only the company of her wolfdog, Girl - unconcerned by the world outside, or perhaps avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following her granddaughter, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will fight to save her as fiercely as her name suggests...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Salt Creek
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2015
8775071
2015
single work
novel
historical fiction
'Salt Creek is set in the Coorong in the 1850s: a remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region in the new province of South Australia, which has been opened to graziers willing to chance their luck. Among them are Stanton Finch and his family, including sixteen-year-old Hester Finch.
'Once wealthy political activists, the Finch family has fallen on hard times. Cut adrift from the polite society they were raised to be part of, Hester and her siblings make connections where they can: with the travellers passing along the nearby stock route - among them a young artist, Charles - and the Ngarrindjeri people they have dispossessed. Hester witnesses the destruction of their subtle culture and begins to wonder what civilization is. Was it for this life and this world that she was educated?'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
