The Diamond Anchor
By (Author) Jennifer Mills
University of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press
30th March 2009
Australia
General
Fiction
A823
Paperback
320
Width 154mm, Height 228mm, Spine 24mm
414g
An unexpected letter from her childhood friend Grace forces May to relive their extraordinary past and confront the events that drove them apart fifty years earlier. May's father won the Diamond Anchor, a dilapidated pub perched on the ocean's edge, in a game of cards - a gamble which positioned her at the heart of the close-knit community for seventy years, and gave her custody of its stories. Now, trying to maintain a careful balance between the demands of the collapsing building and her own solitary life, May must decide whether to reach out to Grace, whose health is fading, or let her go.
Jennifer Mills is already a name to watch with a number of recent awards successes for her fiction, including the Marion Eldridge Award, the Northern Territory Literary Award and the Commonwealth Short Story Competition (Pacific region).