Rozanna Lilley Rozanna Lilley i(A150520 works by)
Gender: Female
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The daughter of authors Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley, Rozanna Lilley grew up in Perth and Sydney in a distinctly bohemian household.

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y separately published work icon Do Oysters Get Bored? A Curious Life Nedlands : UWA Publishing , 2018 13858102 2018 selected work essay

'Rozanna Lilley is a social anthropologist, autism researcher, and Oscar’s mum. Oscar is on the autism spectrum, which means he has a particular way of being in the world and understanding the lives of those around him.

'As Rozanna and her husband Neil navigate Oscar’s childhood, the author reflects upon her own childhood and adolescence, spent in a libertarian, self-consciously bohemian household first in Perth and then in Sydney presided over by her parents, the writers Dorothy Hewett and Merv Lilley.

'Through personal essays, Lilley works through the ongoing repercussions of childhood trauma and captures Oscar’s rich inner world, as revealed through his vivid fantasy life and curious observations. Do Oysters Get Bored? is a shimmering examination of an eccentric family, the complexities of care and the toll of grief in middle-age. A set of poems serve as a counterpoint to the essays in this directly charming and surprisingly funny account of daily life.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2019 shortlisted National Biography Award
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