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The Australian Women's Weekly
|Christmas 2020
The Reading room
Great reads
ALL OUR SHIMMERING SKIES
by Trent Dalton, 4th Estate
Trent Dalton’s ambitious tale combines a dreamy aura of magical realism with scenes rooted in the Australian landscape. At its heart is Molly Hook, the “poor little gravedigger girl”, age seven when the story opens in Darwin in 1935. Molly’s mum, Violet, tells her to “keep your eyes on the sky” before she leaves. Molly knows her mum is up there and as her earthly life is engulfed in abuse and trauma, she uses her imagination to escape.
A TREACHEROUS COUNTRY
by K.M. Kruimink, Allen & Unwin
Tigris the mare, Cannibal the guide and new English immigrant Gabriel Fox plod dully, saunter under impenetrable hair and with wild passionate thoughts, respectively, as each inhabits their own world traverse wild Van Diemen’s Land. Winner of The Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award, the narrative and language is ancient and steeped in wisdom, warmth and wit.
THE BOOK OF TWO WAYS
by Jodi Picoult, Allen & Unwin
This story is from the Christmas 2020 edition of The Australian Women's Weekly.
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