Amanda O'Callaghan Amanda O'Callaghan i(A153462 works by)
Gender: Female
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1 The Golden Hour Amanda O'Callaghan , 2019 single work short story
— Appears in: Island , no. 156 2019; (p. 18)
1 1 y separately published work icon This Taste for Silence : Stories Amanda O'Callaghan , St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 2019 15423298 2019 selected work short story

'The balance of power in a marriage shifts, with shocking consequences. An elderly woman recounts a chilling childhood memory on the family farm. A taxi driver with a missing wife reveals unexpected skills. An inherited painting brings an eerily troubling legacy.

'Subtle, compelling and unsettling, Amanda O’Callaghan’s stories work at the edges of the sayable, through secrets, erasures and glimpsed moments of disclosure. They shimmer with unspoken histories and characters who have a ‘taste for silence’.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 The Mohair Coat Amanda O'Callaghan , 2017 single work short story
— Appears in: Communion Literary Magazine , December no. 8 2017;
1 The Turn Amanda O'Callaghan , 2016 single work short story crime
— Appears in: Crime Scenes : Stories 2016; (p. 7-23)
1 The Ride Amanda O'Callaghan , 2015 single work short story
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , October 2015;
1 A Widow's Snow Amanda O'Callaghan , 2014 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 10 no. 1 2014;
1 Legacy Amanda O'Callaghan , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Review of Australian Fiction , vol. 5 no. 5 2013;
1 y separately published work icon The Memory Bones Amanda O'Callaghan , Strawberry Hills : Spineless Wonders , 2013 11449469 2013 single work short story

'As a child, Geraldine spent school holidays with her grandparents on their isolated country property. Her recollections are of halcyon moments filled with family and natural beauty. Years later, while visiting with her widowed grandmother, now living in town and struggling with the onset of dementia, Geraldine learns of a shocking secret that will forever change her childhood perceptions and memories of her grandparent’s home.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 Roads South Amanda O'Callaghan , 2011 single work short story
— Appears in: One Book Many Brisbanes : Sixth Anthology of Brisbane Stories 2011; (p. 130-137)

'It’s the 1970s. Nadia Comăneci, the teenage gym­nastic sensation, transfixes the world. In the outer suburbs south of Brisbane, life continues, sleepy and rural. But an acrobatic cow is on the loose, and the backhoes are heading for the farms. The city folk are moving south, and life will never be the same again.' (130)

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