Sophie Overett Sophie Overett i(A150024 works by)
Gender: Female
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BiographyHistory

Sophie Overett has been the Queensland Writers Centre service officer and Program and Marketing Coordinator.

Most Referenced Works

Personal Awards

2019 shortlisted Viva La Novella Award for 'Like a Moth Between Your Hands'.
2018 winner Australasian Association of Writing Programs Awards Emerging Writers' Prize for 'Sea Wife'.
2016 shortlisted The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for 'The Rabbits'.

Awards for Works

y separately published work icon The Rabbits North Sydney : Vintage Australia , 2021 21315222 2021 single work novel

'The disappearance of Bo Rabbit in 1984 left the Rabbit women crippled by grief. Bo’s mother, Rosemary, and Bo’s younger sister, Delia, became disjointed and dysfunctional, parting ways not long after Delia turned eighteen.

'Now a teacher at a Queensland college, Delia’s life is dissolving. She gave up on her own art, began a relationship with a student, and is struggling to raise her three growing children, Olive, Charlie and Benjamin. And now she must also care for her mother.

'Despite it all, the Rabbits are managing, precariously. Or, they were until sixteen-year-old Charlie Rabbit disappears in the middle of a blinding heatwave. The family reels from the loss, and struggles to cope as the children’s estranged father, Ed, re-enters their lives.

'Only nothing is quite as it seems, and Charlie’s disappearance soon proves to be just that – a disappearance, or, rather, an unexpected bout of invisibility he’s unable to reverse.

'The Rabbits is a multigenerational family story with a dose of magical realism. It is about family secrets, art, very mild superpowers, loneliness and the strange connections we make in the places we least expect.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2021 winner Kathleen Mitchell Literary Award
2020 winner PRH Australia Literary Prize
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