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Fineflour by Gillian Mears

Fineflour
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The river Fineflour flows through this narrative as it flows through the town, linking time and place, character and event.

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The river Fineflour flows through this narrative as it flows through the town, linking time and place, character and event. A source of myth and memory, it brings tragedy as well as comfort. There is an undercurrent of sadness and suspended grief in Gillian Mears' writing that is balanced by her tenderness and unconventional sense of the comic.

Gillian Mears is also the author of Ride a Cock Horse which won the Commonwealth Writers' Regional First Book Award in 1989, The Mint Lawn which won the Vogel/Australian Literary Award, and The Grass Sister, regional winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Award in 1996.

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Gillian Mears

Gillian Mears

Gillian Mears grew up in the northern New South Wales town of Grafton. Acclaim came early, with her short-story collections and novels winning major prizes. Her books include Ride a Cock Horse (1988), Fineflour (1990), winner of a Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, The Mint Lawn (1991) winner of the Australian/Vogel Literary Award, and The Grass Sister (1995), winner of the regional Commonwealth Prize for Best Book. A Map of the Gardens (2002) won the 2003 Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award. In 2012 Gillian Mears was awarded the Australian Literary Society (ASL) Gold Medal for Foal's Bread.

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