PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Known for her Stella award-winning novel The Museum of Modern Love this luminous and surprising memoir is full of pain, courage and joy. Rose has always been open to the numinous and its lessons, recognising that much in life is inexplicable. Although deeply connected to her Tasmanian heritage, a family tragedy shatters her parents and siblings, and she can't wait to escape. As a teenager she embarks on adventures overseas - some foolish, some reckless, some illegal - and is drawn to study at a Buddhist monastery. Later she makes an arduous commitment to the Lakota sundance ceremony. A myriad of other experiences await her, including the diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis with its chronic and crushing pain. This is such a surprising and compelling memoir, but it is written with grace and beauty and deep gratitude. Lindy
'Funny, devastating, miraculous and delightful. This is an extraordinary life story, extraordinarily told.' - Bri Lee, author of Eggshell Skull'
Heather Rose is the Australian author of eight novels. Heather's most recent novel, Bruny, won the ABIA 2020 General Fiction Book of the Year. Her seventh novel, The Museum of Modern Love, won the 2017 Stella Prize. It also won the 2017 Christina Stead Prize and the 2017 Margaret Scott Prize. It has been published internationally and translated into numerous languages. Both The Museum of Modern Love and The Butterfly Man were longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. The Butterfly Man won the Davitt Award in 2006, and in 2007 The River Wife won the international Varuna Eleanor Dark Fellowship. Bruny and The Museum of Modern Love are both in development for the screen, and the play of The Museum of Modern Love premiered at Sydney Festival in 2022. Heather writes with Danielle Wood under the pen-name Angelica Banks and their Tuesday McGillycuddy children's series has twice been shortlisted for the Aurealis Awards for best children's fantasy. Angelica Banks is also published internationally. Heather lives by the sea in Tasmania.
ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Known for her Stella award-winning novel The Museum of Modern Love this luminous and surprising memoir is full of pain, courage and joy. Rose has always been open to the numinous and its lessons, recognising that much in life is inexplicable. Although deeply connected to her Tasmanian heritage, a family tragedy shatters her parents and siblings, and she can't wait to escape. As a teenager she embarks on adventures overseas - some foolish, some reckless, some illegal - and is drawn to study at a Buddhist monastery. Later she makes an arduous commitment to the Lakota sundance ceremony. A myriad of other experiences await her, including the diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis with its chronic and crushing pain. This is such a surprising and compelling memoir, but it is written with grace and beauty and deep gratitude. Lindy
