Grace Beside Me
Trade Paperback
WINNER, 2011 BLACK&WRITE! INDIGENOUS WRITING FELLOWSHIP
SHORTLISTED, 2013 PRIME MINISTER S LITERARY AWARDS, YOUNG ADULT LITERATUREFINALIST, 2012 DEADLY AWARDS, OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN LITERATUREA warmly rendered story of life in a small town that interweaves the mundane with the profound and the spiritual. Told through the eyes of teenager, Fuzzy Mac, awkward episodes of teen rivalry and romance sit alongside the mystery of Nan s visions and a ghostly encounter. Against a backdrop of quirky characters, including the holocaust survivor who went to school with Einstein and the little priest always rushing off to bury someone before the heat gets to them, Grace Beside Me is full of humour and timely wisdom.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781921248498
- Author: Sue McPherson
- Pub date: 01.04.12
- RRP: $27.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Sue McPherson
Sue McPherson is a visual artist living in Eumundi, Queensland. She was born in Sydney to an Aboriginal mother, from Wiradjuri country. Sue was adopted into the McPherson family, landowners from the Batlow area in New South Wales, when she was very young. A weekend writing workshop inspired Sue to join a writers' group and commit to writing a young adults novel, Grace Beside Me which won the kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Competition through the State Library of Queensland.
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