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History
Conducted by Vision Australia.
Latest Winners / Recipients
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Year: 2000
winner (Adult Audio Book of the Year) y
Happy Families
Sydney
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Hodder Headline
Sceptre
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1999
Z266105
1999
single work
novel
'Happy families are not always conventional. Conventional families are not always happy. A panorama in miniature of contemporary'Australian life in which different worlds connect and collide: city and country, 'old' Europe and 'new' Australia, black and white Australians and male and female values.
'A warm and compelling novel about women's lives, the past and its secrets and the different shapes families can take.' (Publication summary)
Also winner, Adult Narrator of the Year (Helen Morse) who read the story.
Works About this Award
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2000 Vision Australia Shortlist 2000 single work column
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , August no. 223 2000; (p. 62)
