Australian Women Writers Challenge discussion

While i read tons of Aus women writers last year, I never worked out how to link the books here. I'm trying much harder this year!
This is my first book for the challenge -

And my review -

I've read quite a bit about WW1, but had never heard of this remarkable hospital, or the women who ran it, and have now just spent some time on the interwebz checking it out. And, without giving too much away, Tom's fate came as a shock, highlighting British army policy that I not given much thought to - brutal stuff and the figures cited were horrifying. I'm wondering if there isn't a book in this topic alone. All in all an absorbing read which opened up some new areas of interest for me. Bravo Mary-Rose MacColl for sensitively tackling two under-exposed topics in a much written about field.

Well done Amanda:) Do you know how to put your review into the correct place? http://australianwomenwriters.com/201...

The review you've written above needs to be put on the book page, then you copy and paste your link into the above section, along with the rest of your details, then it's recorded along with everyone elses for the year..

Thanks Brenda - I've already done both of the above, just couldn't work out how to put it here. All sorted now!

Well done Amanda:)

Amanda wrote: "While i read tons of Aus women writers last year, I never worked out how to link the books here. I'm trying much harder this year!
This is my first book for the challenge -
[bookcover:In Falling..."

Hi Amanda,
The novel I'm currently writing features another one of the Scottish Women's Hospitals, the field hospital at Ostrovo.

Oh - is that the Serbian one?

Yes, doing the second last draft.

I don't think there were many (if any) Australians at Royamont though were there?

You might be interested on my blog on The Grey Silk Purse
http://debbierobson.wordpress.com/201...
I haven't copied it and another one over to my blog on goodreads yet, lol.
Debbie

I've no idea. I'd never even heard of it before reading this novel. Just had a quick Google & noticed that Miles Franklin worked in the Ostrovo hospital - wow!
Honestly - the things I don't know amaze me!

The Scottish Women's Hospitals is a really neglected part of WWI history. Hopefully MacColl's novel and eventually mine, lol will help redress the balance. I am a wiki user and when I start submitting the manuscript I'm planning to put the SWH up there! I've started with the Ostrovo Unit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostrovo_...
Debbie

Hi Debbie - I spoke with Mary-Rose MacColl last night on Twitter (she just popped up in a stream I was following!) and she said there there several Australian women at Royaumont, including a pathologist.

Will definitely have to read her book! And finish mine lol!

Just finished my second book for the challenge.


Another title for my AWW commitment and one I enjoyed very much. Blackadder has taken the characters around the landing of the first women in Antarctica and woven them into a imaginative and credible story, rich in detail and with a strong sense of place. The descriptions of the voyage and the icebergs were vivid and truly evocative. Her character development is superb, especially that of the women, who truly come across as complex and multidimensional.
I'd never even given any thought to this topic, but Jessie Blackadder has certainly done her research and it was wonderful to see some pictures of the actual women, upon whose real-life experiences she had built her story around.
I sat up until 1.30 in the morning to finish this book, shivering in the Antarctic cold and unsteady on my feet after being immersed so thoroughly in her ocean-going tale.

I'm planning to read Shiver set in the Antarctic so it will be interesting to contrast the two!

I've been slack about posting in this group again. I seem to have trouble remembering how to get to it - brain-fail, I suppose.
I've just finished another for the challenge -


Here's my review,
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

In short, a disappointment.

Oh, I also read this one and reviewed it -



My (quite brief) review here-
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Amanda, you might enjoy my link. I've just finished a novel about the Scottish Women's Field Hospital in Serbia. It forms part of my novel The Grey Silk Purse which I have just started submitting but you will see quite a bit about the hospital in my blog. Ostrovo is the one Miles Franklin worked in.
http://debbierobson.wordpress.com


Amanda wrote: "While i read tons of Aus women writers last year, I never worked out how to link the books here. I'm trying much harder this year!
This is my first book for the challenge -
[bookcover:In Falling..."

I've just finished reading Adelaide's Hannah Kent's first book and am still a bit blown away. Remarkable, just remarkable. My review is here -

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...