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'Combining strong and quirky characters with the natural Australian landscape, The Rose Notes explores themes of isolation and ageing, and the truth behind a family's buried secrets.' The Australian Literaray Management website.
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Dedication: For Ben and Ant (for all the love and light)
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Author's note: The region of Coolabarradin with its outlying farms, including Mamerbrook, is a fictional place, modelled on the southern Riverina in New South Wales, Australia. All of the characters in the book, with the exception of the Southern Bell Frog and the Plains Wanderer, are fictional and bear no relation to any person, living or dead.
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Epigraph: 'Territory, you see, is not necessarily the place you feed in. It's the place in which you stay...where you know every nook and cranny...where you know by heart every refuge...where you are invincible to the pursuer. I've even measured it with sticklebacks.' Konrad Lorenz (comment made to Bruce Chatwin, published in The Songlines)
'Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.' Gertrude Stein.
' Just when we are safest, there's a sunset-touch, A fancy from a flower-bell, some one's death, A chorus-ending from Euripides, - And that's enough for fifty hopes and fears As old and new at once as nature's self, To rap and knock and enter in our soul... Robert Browning (from Bishop Blougram's Apology)
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- Also sound recording.
Works about this Work
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In Short : Fiction
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 June 2005; (p. 26)
— Review of The Rose Notes : A Novel 2005 single work novel ; Millie and the Night Heron 2005 single work children's fiction ; Space : New Writing no. 2 2005 periodical issue -
Take Three
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 22 May 2005; (p. 14)
— Review of Affection : A Novel 2005 single work novel ; The Rose Notes : A Novel 2005 single work novel -
Looking Out and in at the Power of the Past
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 May 2005; (p. 5)
— Review of The Singing 2005 single work novel ; The Rose Notes : A Novel 2005 single work novel
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Looking Out and in at the Power of the Past
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Age , 14 May 2005; (p. 5)
— Review of The Singing 2005 single work novel ; The Rose Notes : A Novel 2005 single work novel -
Take Three
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: Canberra Sunday Times , 22 May 2005; (p. 14)
— Review of Affection : A Novel 2005 single work novel ; The Rose Notes : A Novel 2005 single work novel -
In Short : Fiction
2005
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 4-5 June 2005; (p. 26)
— Review of The Rose Notes : A Novel 2005 single work novel ; Millie and the Night Heron 2005 single work children's fiction ; Space : New Writing no. 2 2005 periodical issue
Last amended 31 May 2006 14:45:32
Subjects:
- Riverina - Murray area, New South Wales,
- 1955
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