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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
- 2019 recipient Australia Council Grants, Awards and Fellowships — Literature Arts Projects for individuals and groups: $15,000.
- 2017 recipient Queensland Literary Awards — Queensland Writers Fellowship for 'People Are Kind'.
- 2011 recipient Asialink Literature Residency Program for residency in China
Awards for Works
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Learning How to Breathe
St Lucia
:
University of Queensland Press
,
2009
Z1523149
2009
single work
biography
'When musician Linda Neil returns home to Brisbane to care for her ailing mother, Joan, a singing teacher, she has no idea what she is committing to, or even that she is committing at all.
'The experience will change her life.
'Connected by a deep love of music - from Linda's own songs and the works of the classical masters, to the musical comedy of the dance hall and the sounds of the street - Linda finds a new bond with her mother. As Joan's illness progresses, their shared musical passion soothes and instructs, helps them to make sense of what is happening and, finally, to accept it.
'Beautifully written and deeply felt, Learning How to Breathe is a daughter's love song to her mother, an unforgettable true story about what it means to find home.' (From the publisher's website.)
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