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The 2011 Award

 

Halligan

Valley of Grace

by Marion Halligan

 

 

 

Nominated by:

  • The National Library of Australia, Canberra.

 

Publisher of Nominated Edition:

Allen & Unwin.

 

the complete A-Z listing of nominated authors
ABOUT THE BOOK

Valley of Grace is an interwoven narrative of modern day Paris. 
 
Fanny and Gerard fall in love in a way that surprises even them as their lives fill with good sex and loving companionship. But they long for a child to complete their happiness. Two of Fanny's lesbian friends feel similarly driven by the need to have a child. But how to make that possible? 
 
Jean-Marie is an internationally regarded professor of philosophy whose adoring students are willing sexual partners fulfilling the tenets of his libertarianism. But perhaps philosophy can't bear the weight of human emotion. 
 
When Gerard buys a beautiful old house in the suburbs, the disturbing contents of the attic binds the stories into an intriguing and darkly disturbing knot. 
 
Valley of Grace is a lyrical work full of hope and children, written by one of Australia's most loved novelists at the height of her powers. Savour it

(From Publisher).
 

 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Marion Halligan is an award-winning novelist, essayist and short-story writer with many prizes to her name, including The Age Book of the Year, the ACT Book of the Year, the Nita B. Kibble Award, the Steele Rudd Award, the Braille Book of the Year, the 3M Talking Book of the Year and the Geraldine Pascall prize for critical writing. She has also been shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Dublin IMPAC Prize and the Miles Franklin Award. Her previous works include The Point, The Fog Garden, A Taste of Memory, The Apricot Colonel, Murder on the Apricot Coast, and Valley of Grace. Marion lives in Canberra.  

LIBRARIANS' COMMENTS

Valley of Grace is a lyrical work full of hope and children. Set in Paris, this novel in short stories explores love, making a life as a partner, wishing and hoping, and the many ways our desires are granted and withheld.

 

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