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Issue Details: First known date: 2011... 2011 The Blue Roses of Orroroo
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'In the summer of 1928, the body of Michael Walsh is brought home to Norwood from Mount Gambier, where he died on a train. That night his wife, Rose, attacks his coffin with an axe. Rose's estranged daughter, Mary, returns for the funeral. Mother and daughter are reconciled but as Michael is buried, dark secrets are resurrected. The Blue Roses of Orroroo is a humorous account of rape, incest and Stolen Generations related by Rose Walsh, a not always reliable witness, as she strives to rescue her family from destitution and, fuelled by kerosene and roses, to restore her own self-esteem. Blue Roses won the Three Day Novel Writing Race conducted by the Salisbury Writers' Festival in 2007. The novel was expanded and entered in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Competition in 2009, reaching the semi-finals. (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: To my grandmother, Alma Eliza Burge,
    who told me of the blue roses of Orroroo.

    'If you think you're going to die, clean the stove.'
    -Mrs A.E. Burge

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Port Adelaide, Port Adelaide - Enfield area, Adelaide - Northwest, Adelaide, South Australia,: Ginninderra Press , 2011 .
      Extent: 389p.
      Note/s:
      • "Blue Roses won the Three Day Novel Writing Race conducted by the Salisbury Writers' Festival in 2007" -Back cover.
      ISBN: 9781740276733

Works about this Work

Untitled Bill Tully , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review , December no. 40 2011; (p. 26-28)

— Review of The Blue Roses of Orroroo Margaret Edith Visciglio , 2011 single work novel
Untitled Bill Tully , 2011 single work review
— Appears in: Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review , December no. 40 2011; (p. 26-28)

— Review of The Blue Roses of Orroroo Margaret Edith Visciglio , 2011 single work novel
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