Tirra Lirra By the River
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Tirra Lirra By the River
By (Author) Jessica Anderson
Pan Macmillan Australia
Picador Australia
1st January 1997
Australia
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Fiction
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 134mm, Height 198mm, Spine 14mm
155g
Description
A novel that tells of one woman's remarkable life. Nora Porteous flees her small-town family and stifling marriage and creates a new life for herself in London. In her seventies, she returns to Queensland to settle in her childhood home and discovers that everything is not as she remembers. Author won Miles Franklin award for this novel.
Author Bio
Jessica Anderson was born in Queensland in 1916 and began writing novels at the age of 40. Since then she has received many awards for her work. Twice she has won the prestigious Miles Franklin award, for Tirra Lirra By the River in 1978 and for The Impersonators in 1980. The Impersonators also won the New South Wales Premier's Award in 1981. In addition to writing seven novels (the most recent of which is One of the Wattle Birds), her collection of short stories, Stories From the Warm Zone, won the Age Book of the Year Award in 1987.
