Coal Creek
Jan 2017 · Atlantic Books
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WINNER OF THE 2014 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS AND THE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 201 4 ALS GOLD MEDAL
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS
When his father dies, Bobby Blue decides to leave the Mount Hay cattle station where they worked side by side and take a job in town as the new constable's offsider. Daniel, the constable, his wife Esme and their two girls, Irie and Miriam, are new to the western country and, struggling to understand its inhabitants, invite Bobby to stay in a hut on their property where he is educated alongside their daughters.
But there's a simmering tension, building quietly and strongly, beneath the overt goodwill. And when first Irie then Miriam become involved in a dispute that threatens violence, there's an abrupt and ruthless change in attitude from Daniel and Esme towards Bobby.
When tragedy strikes at Coal Creek the true nature of the perceived friendship is laid bare with consequences that will haunt Bobby for decades.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2014 IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS AND THE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 201 4 ALS GOLD MEDAL
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDS
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 WESTERN AUSTRALIAN PREMIER'S BOOK AWARDS
When his father dies, Bobby Blue decides to leave the Mount Hay cattle station where they worked side by side and take a job in town as the new constable's offsider. Daniel, the constable, his wife Esme and their two girls, Irie and Miriam, are new to the western country and, struggling to understand its inhabitants, invite Bobby to stay in a hut on their property where he is educated alongside their daughters.
But there's a simmering tension, building quietly and strongly, beneath the overt goodwill. And when first Irie then Miriam become involved in a dispute that threatens violence, there's an abrupt and ruthless change in attitude from Daniel and Esme towards Bobby.
When tragedy strikes at Coal Creek the true nature of the perceived friendship is laid bare with consequences that will haunt Bobby for decades.
About the author
Alex Miller has twice won the prestigious Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's premier literary prize; the first occasion in 1993 for The Ancestor Game, and again in 2003 for Journey to the Stone Country. He is also an overall winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, for The Ancestor Game, in 1993. British by birth, he now lives in Victoria.
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