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'Six Bedrooms is about growing up; about discovering sex; and about coming of age. Full of glorious angst, embarrassment and small achievements.
'Hot afternoons on school ovals, the terrifying promise of losing your virginity, sneaking booze from your mother's pantry, the painful sophistication and squalor of your first share house, cancer, losing a parent.
'Tegan Bennett Daylight's powerful collection captures the dangerous, tilting terrain of becoming adult. Over these ten stories, we find acute portrayals of loss and risk, of sexual longing and wreckage, blunders and betrayals. Threaded through the collection is the experience of troubled, destructive Tasha, whose life unravels in unexpected ways, and who we come to love for her defiance, her wit and her vulnerability.
'Stunningly written, and shot through with humour and menace, Six Bedrooms is a mesmerising collection of moments from adolescence through adulthood, a mix of all the potent ingredients that make up a life.' (Publication summary)
Notes
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A selection of thematically linked short stories.
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Dedication: To my mother
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Epigraph: ...the past is in us, and not behind us. Things are never over. –Tim Winton 'Aquifer'
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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The Stella Interview : Tegan Bennett Daylight
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Stella Interviews 2018;'Tegan Bennett Daylight is the author of 2016 Stella Prize shortlisted book, Six Bedrooms. We caught up with Tegan to talk about her inspirations, writing process, and the significant mentors who have supported her along the way.' (Introduction)
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Books 2015 #1
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19 December 2015; -
Slipping the Curtain Open
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 377 2015; (p. 24)
— Review of Six Bedrooms 2015 selected work short story -
Tegan Bennett Daylight : Six Bedrooms
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2015;
— Review of Six Bedrooms 2015 selected work short story -
Pungent Observations on the Twists of Modern Life
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 August 2015; (p. 29)
— Review of Six Bedrooms 2015 selected work short story
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The Power of Possibilities
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 4-5 July 2015; (p. 18-19)
— Review of Six Bedrooms 2015 selected work short story -
Six Bedrooms - Review
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 12 July 2015; (p. 17)
— Review of Six Bedrooms 2015 selected work short story -
Pungent Observations on the Twists of Modern Life
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 29 August 2015; (p. 29)
— Review of Six Bedrooms 2015 selected work short story -
Tegan Bennett Daylight : Six Bedrooms
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , November 2015;
— Review of Six Bedrooms 2015 selected work short story -
Slipping the Curtain Open
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , December no. 377 2015; (p. 24)
— Review of Six Bedrooms 2015 selected work short story -
Tegan Bennett Daylight
Caroline Baum
(interviewer),
2015
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 18-19 July 2015; (p. 24-25) The Age , 18 July 2015; (p. 24) -
Books 2015 #1
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 19 December 2015; -
The Stella Interview : Tegan Bennett Daylight
2018
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Stella Interviews 2018;'Tegan Bennett Daylight is the author of 2016 Stella Prize shortlisted book, Six Bedrooms. We caught up with Tegan to talk about her inspirations, writing process, and the significant mentors who have supported her along the way.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2016 shortlisted ASAL Awards — ALS Gold Medal
- 2016 longlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita Kibble Literary Award
- 2016 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
- 2016 shortlisted The Stella Prize
- 2016 highly commended Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — The Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction