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On a bright hillside in Paradise / Annette Higgs.

On a bright hillside in Paradise / Annette Higgs.
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ISBN 9781761049736 (paperback)
Name Higgs, Annette author.
Title On a bright hillside in Paradise / Annette Higgs.
Published [Southbank, VIC] : Vintage Books, 2023.
©2023
Description 309 pages ; 24 cm
Notes "Winner - Penguin Literary Prize" --Front cover.
Summary Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard-scrabble lives. The drama begins when strangers arrive, Christian Brethren evangelists who hold big revival meetings in local barns.On a Bright Hillside in Paradise tackles big questions of faith and family but remains grounded in the dreams and strivings of its beautifully drawn characters. Higgs takes lives that history might have judged as small and imbues them with immense dignity and complex and compelling inner lives. Avoiding the myth of the 'frontier pioneer' On a Bright Hillside in Paradise instead shows how these convict descendants wanted nothing more than to retreat to the bush to heal from their trauma, developing a deep love of the landscape in the process.At its heart the novel is about a close-knit community, and home-making in the bush. Despite injuries, losses, deaths, and near-starvation the family survives.
Subjects Families -- Australia -- Fiction
Farmers -- Fiction
Strangers -- Fiction
Communities -- Fiction
Faith -- Fiction
Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Fiction
Tasmania -- Fiction
Genre Historical fiction
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