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Kyra Geddes
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Pip Williams, Sarah Winman, Donna Tartt, Dominic Smith
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"WOW. Just finished reading Limberlost. Read the last page with both a sense of tightness and openness in my chest. I have no words. Robbie used all the good ones.
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"This was a fantastic read, I had trouble putting it down, (hard copy of course) the best book I have read to date. Although the story is fiction, it was a great history lesson."
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“Sharing the lessons that it had taken me a lifetime to learn, I would tell her that everyone has a right to tell a story, any story – that in the telling, or the retelling, the story becomes our own.”
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“If I timed it just right and if the clouds kept their distance that day, the sunlight would hit the chapel’s stained-glass windows and cast a rainbow at my feet. Squinting and tilting my head to one side, then the other, it
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The idea for THE STORY THIEF came in 2014 during my university studies in English and Creative Writing, when I first read Henry Lawson's story, 'The Drover's Wife', and some of its best known retellings. It bothered me that Lawson chose to leave the
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“Sharing the lessons that it had taken me a lifetime to learn, I would tell her that everyone has a right to tell a story, any story – that in the telling, or the retelling, the story becomes our own.”
― The Story Thief
― The Story Thief
“Epigraph: ‘No Australian who has wrestled with the ardours and subtleties of resolving this continent in terms of literature will discount Henry Lawson.’ Miles Franklin, 1942.”
― The Story Thief
― The Story Thief
“I simply could not understand why so many people refused to read Australian books or cringed at the mention of familiar settings and events. Why were they so convinced life was superior elsewhere? Why shouldn’t Australia presume to possess her own culture, instead of just a favourable climate?”
― The Story Thief
― The Story Thief
“I simply could not understand why so many people refused to read Australian books or cringed at the mention of familiar settings and events. Why were they so convinced life was superior elsewhere? Why shouldn’t Australia presume to possess her own culture, instead of just a favourable climate?”
― The Story Thief
― The Story Thief
“That’s a good lesson for you right there, Lillian. Don’t
ever let a man tell you what to do, not even your own husband.”
― The Story Thief
ever let a man tell you what to do, not even your own husband.”
― The Story Thief
“Epigraph: ‘No Australian who has wrestled with the ardours and subtleties of resolving this continent in terms of literature will discount Henry Lawson.’ Miles Franklin, 1942.”
― The Story Thief
― The Story Thief
“Epigraph: ‘Women have a different history. Someone ought to write it down. We’re not sheep or shadows, or silly saints the way Mr Lawson would have. There is more to us. More to me than any of them have written,
if it comes to that.’ Barbara Jefferis, 'The Drover's Wife' (1980)”
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if it comes to that.’ Barbara Jefferis, 'The Drover's Wife' (1980)”
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“Though small in scale, I now saw that this canvas was large enough to hold my own grief.”
― The Story Thief
― The Story Thief
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