House of Sticks

House of Sticks

by Peggy Frew
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 23/02/2016

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WINNER OF THE 2010 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD PRIZE FOR AN UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPT


SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2012 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD UTS GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING


Bonnie has given up her life as a musician to become a stay-at-home mum. She tells herself she has no regrets, but sometimes the isolation and the relentless demands of three small children threaten to swamp the love between Bonnie and her partner, Pete.


Then an old mate of Pete’s arrives. Doug is eccentric and intrusive, and his unsettling presence disrupts Bonnie’s world further. Yet as the cracks really start to show in the life Bonnie and Pete have built together, it seems the dangers might also come from within.


House of Sticks is a revealing portrait of contemporary family life, its joys and compromises, and how quickly things can unravel. It’s about trying to stay connected in our disconnected society; a story of identity and community, loyalty and love.


PRAISE FOR PEGGY FREW


‘[House of Sticks is] the kind of tune that hovers in the air well after the last note has sounded.’ The Sunday Age


‘Her [Frew’s] prose is deceptively powerful … House of Sticks is vivid and contemporary on the page.’ The Weekend Australian

ISBN:
9781921942136
9781921942136
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
23-02-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Scribe Publications Pty Ltd.
Peggy Frew

Peggy Frew's first novel, House of Sticks, won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, and was shortlisted for the UTS Glenda Adams Prize for New Writing.

Hope Farm, her second novel, won the Barbara Jefferis Award, was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award, and longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award.

She has been published in New Australian Stories 2, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin and The Big Issue. Peggy is also a member of the critically acclaimed and award-winning Melbourne band Art of Fighting. Islands is her third novel.

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