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Faith Singer
Angel is surrounded by dangers; her fragile hold on life weakened by the violence of a client and her spiralling drug habit. Faith is a born outsider who has an intense commitment to saving Angel due to unresolved events in her own wild life - an eccentric upbringing by a communist aunt, her roller-coaster career as a famous singer, passionate love affairs and the fate of her beloved daughter. FAITH SINGER both chronicles the powerful friendship between them and celebrates the life of an extraordinary woman and the city she lives in.
260 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2001
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About the author
Rosie Scott
23 books15 followersDr Rosie Scott is an internationally published award-winning novelist who has also worked in many other fields centring around human rights and social justice.
Her latest novel Faith Singer was included in an international list of ‘50 Essential Reads by living Writers’ compiled by the Guardian, Orange Prize Committee and the Hay Literary Festival. The other Australian writers were Tim Winton and J. Coetzee.
A literary career which includes the publication in Australia and internationally of nine books -novels, poetry, short stories and essays- all of which have been anthologised extensively in Australia and internationally.She has also coedited three anthologies.
Her books have been finalists in most major book awards including Premiers Fiction Award, Banjo Patterson, National Book Awards, New Zealand National Book Awards.
Her national award-winning play was later made into a movie which won five international awards in Japan and France.
Served on the Committee of Management and on the Executive of the Australian Society of Authors for ten years.
Was elected Chair of the Australian Society of Authors.
Appointed to the Permanent Council of the Australian Society of Authors.
She initiated and took part in the pilot scheme of the mentoring program for ASA and since then has edited numerous books both for writer friends and for the program.
Served on the Sydney PEN committee for eight years, established and chaired Writers in Detention Committee with Tom Keneally,with whom she edited an anthology of refugee writing.
Was elected Vice President of Sydney PEN.
Nomination for a Human Rights Medal nomination together with Tom Keneally for their work on detained writers,which was also cited by the judges as instrumental in earning a Community Human Rights Award for Australia PEN.
Recipient of the Sydney PEN Award for her ‘outstanding support and commitment to the values, ideas and aims of PEN’.
Recipient of the Life Membership Award of Sydney PEN.
Recipient of STARTTs Humanitarian Award 2015 in media.
Co–founded the national reconciliation organisation Women for Wik and continues on the committee.
Recipient of three literary fellowships and a UWS university scholarship for her doctorate.
Has taught creative writing at UTS for 7 years, Long Bay high security inmates for several years and has been mentoring writers for over a decade.
She was nominated for the education section of 100 most influential people in Sydney for her work in mentoring and teaching about asylum seekers.
Her books are - Flesh and Blood - poems, Glory Days, Queen of Love, short stories, Nights with Grace, Feral City, The Red Heart - essays, Lives on Fire, Faith Singer and three anthologies Another ountry and A Country Too Far both coedited with Tom Keneally, and The Intervention: an Anthology coedited with Anita Heiss
Her latest novel Faith Singer was included in an international list of ‘50 Essential Reads by living Writers’ compiled by the Guardian, Orange Prize Committee and the Hay Literary Festival. The other Australian writers were Tim Winton and J. Coetzee.
A literary career which includes the publication in Australia and internationally of nine books -novels, poetry, short stories and essays- all of which have been anthologised extensively in Australia and internationally.She has also coedited three anthologies.
Her books have been finalists in most major book awards including Premiers Fiction Award, Banjo Patterson, National Book Awards, New Zealand National Book Awards.
Her national award-winning play was later made into a movie which won five international awards in Japan and France.
Served on the Committee of Management and on the Executive of the Australian Society of Authors for ten years.
Was elected Chair of the Australian Society of Authors.
Appointed to the Permanent Council of the Australian Society of Authors.
She initiated and took part in the pilot scheme of the mentoring program for ASA and since then has edited numerous books both for writer friends and for the program.
Served on the Sydney PEN committee for eight years, established and chaired Writers in Detention Committee with Tom Keneally,with whom she edited an anthology of refugee writing.
Was elected Vice President of Sydney PEN.
Nomination for a Human Rights Medal nomination together with Tom Keneally for their work on detained writers,which was also cited by the judges as instrumental in earning a Community Human Rights Award for Australia PEN.
Recipient of the Sydney PEN Award for her ‘outstanding support and commitment to the values, ideas and aims of PEN’.
Recipient of the Life Membership Award of Sydney PEN.
Recipient of STARTTs Humanitarian Award 2015 in media.
Co–founded the national reconciliation organisation Women for Wik and continues on the committee.
Recipient of three literary fellowships and a UWS university scholarship for her doctorate.
Has taught creative writing at UTS for 7 years, Long Bay high security inmates for several years and has been mentoring writers for over a decade.
She was nominated for the education section of 100 most influential people in Sydney for her work in mentoring and teaching about asylum seekers.
Her books are - Flesh and Blood - poems, Glory Days, Queen of Love, short stories, Nights with Grace, Feral City, The Red Heart - essays, Lives on Fire, Faith Singer and three anthologies Another ountry and A Country Too Far both coedited with Tom Keneally, and The Intervention: an Anthology coedited with Anita Heiss
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January 12, 2026
This was set in Kings Cross and I decided I didn't want to spend a whole book in that environment. Well written. DNF.
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