2023 is Gen 5 “ the generation of women who began writing in the 1990s up till now (early 2023)“. It is also in my anthology of The Story: 100 Great Short Stories Written by Womenchosen by Victoria Hislop as well as The BBC International Short Story Award book published 30 September 2012.īill Australian Legend hosts a Gen Week every January that focuses on Australian Women Writers. Tiffany’s story was titled Before He Left the Family. My father had to drive long distances to country chemists who had stocked the same product lines for years and weren’t interested in anything new.Ĭarrie Tiffany and Gregory Day were the joint winners of the 2011 ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize. The best sales representatives visited modern chemists in the city and suburbs.
He travelled from chemist to chemist with samples of pills and lotions and pastes in the back of his Valiant station wagon. With 16 pages of extra content, including Reading Group notes, an essay and awards list, this special edition will make a valuable contribution to your bookshelf.Before he left the family, my father worked as a sales representative for a pharmaceutical company. This special edition celebrates 40 years of Picador with one of Australia's finest literary reads. A heartbreaking novel from an astonishing new writer. Shot through with humour and a quiet wisdom, this haunting first novel evokes the Australian landscape in all its vivid beauty and probes the fragile relationships between man, science and nature. In an atmosphere of heady scientific idealism they settle in the impoverished Mallee with the ambition of proving that science can transform the land. The train is on a crusade to persuade the country that science holds the answers and that productivity is patriotic.Īmongst the swaying cars full of cows, pigs and wheat, an unlikely seduction occurs between Robert Pettergree, a man with an unusual taste for soil, and Jean Finnegan, a talented young seamstress with a hunger for knowledge. It is 1943 billowing dust and information, the government 'Better Farming Train' slides through the wheat fields and small towns of Australia, bringing expert advice to those living on the land.
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