Siddon Rock - Glenda Guest

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Title
Siddon Rock
Author
Glenda Guest
format
Paperback / softback
Publisher
Penguin Random House Australia
Language
English
UK Publication Date
20120401

Filled with a rich cast of unforgettable characters, a powerful magical realist novel of an ordinary outback town made extraordinary
When Macha Connor came home from the war she walked into town as naked as the day she was born, except for well-worn and shining boots, a dusty slouch hat, and the .303 rifle she held across her waist.
Macha patrols Siddon Rock by night, watching over the town's inhabitants: Brigid, Granna, and the melancholic men of the Aberline clan; the tailor Alistair Meakins, with his elegant fantasies; Sybil Barber, scrubbing away at the bloodstains in her father's butcher shop; Reverend Siggy, afraid of the outback landscape and the district's magical saltpans; silent Nell with her wild dogs; publican Marg, always accompanied by a cloud of blue; and the inscrutable new barman, Kelpie Crush. It is only when refugee Catalin Morningstar and her young son Josis arrive and stir up the town that Macha realizes there is nothing she can do to keep the townspeople safe.

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Glenda Guest is an editor and writer and has had stories and poetry published in various anthologies and journals. She was the winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize Best First Book and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award for Siddon Rock.

"A complex story that taps into five generations with great fluency. . . . Here is a writer whose talent is as magical as her genre."
-Sydney Morning Herald


"With sprinklings of magic realism and a deft hand for compelling characters, Glenda Guest has created one of the loveliest debut novels I've read in a long while."
-Bookseller+Publisher magazine


"The terrain is breathtakingly spare and tough and stunning. . . . This is a story that delights and shocks with its spiritual energy and refreshingly original voice."
-Courier Mail


"[It] should impress fans of authors as diverse as Isabel Allende, Haruki Murakami and Zadie Smith."
-Booklist

Type
BOOK
Number of Pages
294

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