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Lainie Jones

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Sydney, Australia

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Lainie Jones has been a commercial artist, a farmer, a teacher, and an academic, all of which feed into her love of writing. She holds a doctorate in Creative Writing and her essays and short stories have been published in numerous anthologies and journals. Her books include a memoir, two full-length novels, a children’s book, a collection of short stories, and a non-fiction work on Australian women’s writing.

Lainie grew up in inner Sydney before moving to a riverbank farm in the Northern Rivers of NSW where she raised two children, many calves, chickens and piglets, and several foals. She now lives on a mountain with peacocks, pythons and bush turkeys. And dogs, always dogs.

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Average rating: 4.5 · 24 ratings · 5 reviews · 14 distinct works

	A Woman's Place 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disobedient Daughters: a memoir spanning four generations 4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	East of Memory, West of Magic: Collected Stories it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadows of Sholanth it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Gumma Garra Stone it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prophecy: Book One of The Luminara Chronicles it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Disobedient Daughters: a memoir spanning four generations 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	East of Memory West of Magic: Collected Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadows of Sholanth 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	On The Threshold: Women’s Life Writing and Matters of Choice 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Lainie Jones rated a book it was amazing By Any Other Name by Jodi Picoult (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Lainie Jones rated a book it was amazing Enchanted (The Donovan Legacy, #4) by Nora Roberts (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Lainie Jones liked a quote “Everything real was first imagined.’ He flicked his hand at the stars framed in her window. ‘Those stars existed in my imagination long before they were fashioned into stone and fire, long before my Father breathed light into them. Many of them no longer exist but their light lives on. Are they real? Are they illusion? Speculating about what is real and what is imagined will drive you mad.’ Gabriel from Catch the Moon, Mary” Wendy Waters
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Lainie Jones and 51 other people liked Colin Baldwin's review of A Woman's Place: "It was Wendy Waters’ review and praise that led me to this novel. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... It was also her update of 17 October 2023 that gave me the nudge to bump it up my ‘to read’ list, and I thank her because this novel is special." Read more of this review »
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Lainie Jones rated a book it was ok The Tainted Khan (The Soulbound Saga #2) by Taran Matharu (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Everything real was first imagined.’ He flicked his hand at the stars framed in her window. ‘Those stars existed in my imagination long before they were fashioned into stone and fire, long before my Father breathed light into them. Many of them no longer exist but their light lives on. Are they real? Are they illusion? Speculating about what is real and what is imagined will drive you mad.’ Gabriel from Catch the Moon, Mary”
― Wendy Waters, Catch the Moon, Mary

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