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Issue Details: First known date: 1990... 1990 Mood Indigo
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This novel and its sequel Blind Luck (1993) trace the misfortunes of the Partridge family - a drug-addicted musician husband and father, an alcoholic wife and mother and three children.

Notes

  • Described in the book as a novel-in-stories, each chapter can be read as a stand-alone piece.
  • Dedication: For my very best friend, Yusef

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 1999 Z1392359 1999 selected work novel

    'From the 1989 Australian/Vogel Literary Award Winner comes an immediately engaging novel-in-stories, written in a deceptively simple style. It tells the story of Rose, three or four years old as the novel opens, a teenager as it ends.

    'Rose loves the beach, her sister, her mother. Most of all, she loves her Dad, and Dad's music. But too few people want to hear him, and sometimes Rose and Wanda and Mum have to fit uncomfortably into other people's lives.

    'Mandy Sayer uncovers the powerlessness of a child with an entirely steady hand. Her social observations are often bleak, yet she draws the reader into a deep and lasting involvement with all her characters, and especially with the feisty, irrestibile Rose.' (Publication summary)

    Milsons Point : Vintage Australia , 1999

Other Formats

  • Also sound recording.

Works about this Work

Sweeping Away the Dirt Rosemary Sorensen , 1995 single work review
— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 2 December 1995; (p. wkd 8)

— Review of Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel ; The Grass Sister Gillian Mears , 1995 single work novel
Moody Piece Strikes the Right Chord 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 22 July 1990; (p. 108)

— Review of Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel
Untitled Julia Hancock , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Lesbians on the Loose , August no. 8 1990; (p. 12)

— Review of Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel
Short Stories Begin to Add Up Catriona Bonfiglioli , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 30 June 1990; (p. 21)
Post-Colonial PNG Blues Veronica Sen , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 26 August 1990; (p. 22)

— Review of Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel ; A Lease of Summer Jean Bedford , 1990 single work novel
Untitled Julia Hancock , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Lesbians on the Loose , August no. 8 1990; (p. 12)

— Review of Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel
Mood Musics of the Spiritual Helen Daniel , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 28-29 July 1990; (p. rev 6)

— Review of The Kadaitcha Sung Sam Watson , 1990 single work novel ; Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel
Having a Turbulent Time of It Andrew Peek , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Age , 25 August 1990; (p. 9)

— Review of Women Falling Down in the Street Kate Jennings , 1990 selected work short story ; Dieback Christopher McCallum Eipper , 1990 single work novel ; Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel
Forecasts Jane Stephens , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Bookseller & Publisher , April vol. 69 no. 1003 1990; (p. 22-23)

— Review of Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel
Through Rose-Coloured Spectacles Doris Leadbetter , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , July no. 122 1990; (p. 36-37)

— Review of Mood Indigo Mandy Sayer , 1990 single work novel
Short Stories Begin to Add Up Catriona Bonfiglioli , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Saturday Mercury , 30 June 1990; (p. 21)
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