Eliza Henry-Jones Eliza Henry-Jones i(A139595 works by) (a.k.a. Eliza-Jane Henry-Jones)
Gender: Female
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Eliza-Jane Henry-Jones undertook a BA at Monash University, and has qualifications in qualifications in English, psychology and grief, loss and trauma counselling. In 2016, she was undertaking an Honours degree in English Literature.

Her unpublished short stories have won various awards, including the Monash Literature Festival Short Story Competition, adult category (second place in 2008 for 'The Magic One'; commended in 2009 for 'Feather Shadows') and the Glen Eira City Council's My Brother Jack Literary Awards (first prize in the Youth Poetry Award in 2010 for 'Rushing Years'; first prize in the Youth Short Story Award in 2010 for 'Silver Words'). She was a Young Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers' Centre in 2012 and was a recipient of a Varuna residential fellowship for 2015.

Her first novel was published in 2015, and her follow-up novel in mid-2017.

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y separately published work icon Salt and Skin Ultimo : Ultimo Press , 2022 23617492 2022 single work novel

'Grief-stricken and on the verge of a breakdown, Luda Managan and her two teenaged children try to make a home for themselves on a collection of harsh and haunted Scottish islands.

'Luda, a photographer, is mesmerised by the extraordinary magic of the islands and soon finds herself condemned by the local community after publishing images documenting the death of a local child. Alienated, Luda turns her attention to the records from the 17th century island witch-hunts and the fragmented life stories of the executed women. Min, restless and strong, tries to fill up the space in their family left by her father. She soon finds comfort in the depths of the icy North Sea and in an unlikely friendship with the elderly and irreverent local ‘witch’. The only thing that beautiful and gifted Darcy cares about is getting marks high enough for entry into university – one very, very far away from his mother.

'Until he meets the wild foundling, Theo.

'When a tragic accident unleashes ghosts and the echoes of long-ago violence and betrayal into their lives, the Managans are forced to confront the ways that history both hinders us and sets us free.

'Drawing on records of the witch trials and folk tales of the northern isles, Salt and Skin is full of tenderness, magic and yearning. It’s a meditation on the absence of women’s voices and stories in history, and the unexpected ways that sites of long-ago trauma continue to haunt the living.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2023 longlisted Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2023 longlisted Indie Awards Fiction
y separately published work icon How to Grow a Family Tree Sydney : HarperCollins Australia , 2020 18638377 2020 single work novel young adult

'Stella may only be seventeen, but having read every self-help book she can find means she knows a thing or two about helping people. She sure wasn't expecting to be the one in need of help, though.

'Thanks to her father's gambling addiction, Stella and her family now find themselves living at Fairyland Caravan Park. And hiding this truth from her friends is hard enough without dealing with another secret. Stella's birth mother has sent her a letter.

'As Stella deals with the chaos of her family, she must also confront the secrets and past of her 'other' family. But Stella is stronger than she realises.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2020 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
y separately published work icon P is for Pearl Melbourne : HarperCollins Australia , 2018 12364838 2018 single work novel young adult

'Seventeen-year-old Gwendolyn P. Pearson has become very good at not thinking about the awful things that have happened to her family. She has also become used to people talking about her dead mum. Or not talking about her and just looking at Gwen sympathetically. And it’s easy not to think about awful things when there are wild beaches to run along, best friends Loretta and Gordon to hang out with - and a stepbrother to take revenge on.

'But following a strange disturbance at the cafe where she works, Gwen is forced to confront what happened to her family all those years ago. And she slowly comes to realise that people aren’t as they first appear and that like her, everyone has a story to tell.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
2019 CBCA Book of the Year Awards Notable Book Older Readers
2019 longlisted Indie Awards Young Adult
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