The China Garden
Author(s): Kristina Olsson
Over two hot weeks one summer, cracks emerge in the veneer of a small coastal town. Laura has returned home for her mother's funeral after years in exile, only to discover her upbringing was based on a lie; elderly Cress, the moral compass of the community, conceals her own vices; while young Abby walks the streets, her bruises wrapped in baggy clothes. When a newborn baby is found abandoned in a backyard, this dramatic event pierces the lives of these three very different women. But it is gentle Kieran, an unlikely guardian, who knows their secrets and watches over them. As their lives collide, what is buried can no longer remain hidden. The China Garden is a captivating story about betrayal and its echoes across generations.
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WINNER OF THE 2010 BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD
'The China Garden propels Kristina Olsson into the front ranks of Australian novelists.' Matthew Condon, novelist and journalist.
Kristina Olsson is the author of the novel In One Skin (2001) and the biography Kilroy Was Here (2005). The China Garden (2009) received the 2010 Barbara Jefferis Award for its empowering depiction of women in society and was also shortlisted for the Kibble Literary Award. Kristina's journalism and non-fiction have been published in the Australian, the Courier-Mail, the Sunday Telegraph and Griffith Review. She has worked extensively as a teacher of creative writing and journalism at tertiary level and in the community, and as an advisor to government. She lives in Brisbane.
General Fields
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- : University of Queensland Press
- : University of Queensland Press
- : 0.27
- : 01 May 2011
- : 198mm x 129 mm
- : Australia
- : 01 May 2011
- : 01 December 2018
- : books
Special Fields
- : Kristina Olsson
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 823.4
- : 288