Author: Murn, Molly.
Title: Heart of the Grass Tree.
Description: Sydney Penguin / Random House, 2019. Paperback octavo, very good condition, minor edgewear. 291 pp. This special Australian novel by Molly Murn is about the unexpected death of Pearl's grandmother Nell, and how Pearl and her family - mother Diana, sister Lucy - return to Kangaroo Island to mourn and farewell her. Pearl starts to put together the Nell's stories, poems, and paintings, and finds a connection to the island's early history, of the European sealers and their first contact with the Ngarrindjeri people. This book is a searing and hope-filled debut about mothers and daughters and family stories, about country and its living history. ISBN: 9780143792499

Keywords: australian fiction, historical fiction, families, death, aborigines, indigenous, south australia, kangaroo island 9780143792499


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