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The Mint Lawn

The Mint Lawn

by Gillian Mears
Paperback
Publication Date: 31/05/2016

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Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 1990

North Coast, New South Wales. Clementine is twenty-five and still living in the place where she grew up, rooted there by memories and her own inability to make changes until she has understood her past. The past is dominated by memories of her mother, and her mother, and her mother's attempts to dramatise and enrich small-town life and the perceptions of her three clever, receptive daughters.

But only Clementine has stayed. Is this out of loyalty to her mother's memory? Or to comfort her father? Perhaps she wants to find peace with Hugh, her earnest husband in whose house she most uncomfortably lives? Or is the lure Thomas, who alone can appreciate Clementine's own sensuality, and her humour, but who must remain another of her secrets.

In The Mint Lawn, Gillian Mears has written a wonderful debut novel which will be read with pleasure and remembered with joy.

'Gillian Mears writes like an angel.' - Kate Veitch, The Age

'. powerful and beautifully balanced.' - Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser
ISBN:
9781742379333
9781742379333
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
31-05-2016
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
420
Dimensions (mm):
198x128x29mm
Weight:
0.36kg
Gillian Mears

Gillian Mears (1964 - 2016) was loved for her novels and short stories, including the 2012 multi-award-winning novel for adults Foal’s Bread.

She wrote The Cat with the Coloured Tail while camped in the South Australian mallee, in her converted ambo camper, Ant and Bee. The Cat with the Coloured Tail was short-listed for the 2016 ABIA awards.

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