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Sorry, Gail Jones

An exquisite new novel by one of Australia's most gifted contemporary novelists

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  • Paperback
    $19.95 RRP
    ISBN: 9781741666632
    Published: 02/06/2008
    Imprint: Vintage Australia
    Extent: 224 pages

In the remote outback of Western Australia during World War II, English anthropologist Nicholas Keene and his wife, Stella, raise a lonely child, Perdita. Her upbringing is far from ordinary: in a shack in the wilderness, with a distant father burying himself in books and an unstable mother whose knowledge of Shakespeare forms the backbone of the girl's limited education. Emotionally adrift, Perdita becomes friends with a deaf and mute boy, Billy, and an Aboriginal girl, Mary. Perdita and Mary come to call one another sister and to share a very special bond. They are content with life in this remote corner of the globe, until a terrible event lays waste to their lives. Through this exquisite story of Perdita's troubled childhood, Gail Jones explores the values of friendship, loyalty and sacrifice with a brilliance that has already earned her numerous accolades for her previous novels, DREAMS OF SPEAKING and SIXTY LIGHTS.

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Congratulations to Gail Jones, author of FIVE BELLS, which has been shortlisted for the Christina Stead Prize for the 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards!

We are so excited to announce that FIVE BELLS by Gail Jones has just been awarded the 2012 Nita B Kibble Literary Prize! The Kibble Award, currently valued at $30, 000, recognises the outstanding literary achievements of an established Australian female writer. The book received rave reviews from the award's judging committee who stated that: "FIVE...