Mullumbimby by Melissa Lucashenko (English) Paperback Book

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A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Indigenous voices. When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors.

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A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare.When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter Ellen, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours, and a looming Native Title war among the local Bundjalung families. When Jo stumbles into love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life.Told with humour and a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.

Author Biography

Melissa Lucashenko is a Goorie (Aboriginal) author of Bundjalung and European heritage. Her first novel was published in 1997 and since then her work has received acclaim in many literary awards. Killing Darcy won the Royal Blind Society Award and was shortlisted for an Aurealis award. Her sixth novel, Too Much Lip, won the 2019 Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance. It was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction, the Stella Prize, two Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, two Queensland Literary Awards and two NSW Premier's Literary Awards. Melissa is a Walkley Award winner for her non-fiction, and a founding member of human rights organisation Sisters Inside. She writes about ordinary Australians and the extraordinary lives they lead. Edenglassie has won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, the Indie Book Award for Fiction and the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year.

Review

'Cheeky, thoughtful, real - a powerful story about country and belonging.' - Kate Grenville

Prizes

Short-listed for Queensland Literary Awards: Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year 2013

Promotional "Headline"

A darkly funny novel of romantic love and cultural warfare from one of Australia's most admired Indigenous voices.

Details ISBN0702239194 Author Melissa Lucashenko Year 2013 ISBN-10 0702239194 ISBN-13 9780702239199 Format Paperback Place of Publication St Lucia Birth 1967 Publisher University of Queensland Press Publication Date 2013-02-27 Imprint University of Queensland Press Country of Publication Australia DEWEY A823.00 Pages 286 Illustrations black & white illustrations Short Title MULLUMBIMBY Language English Media Book UK Release Date 2013-02-27 Audience General NZ Release Date 2013-02-26 AU Release Date 2013-02-26 We've got this

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