When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families. When Jo unexpectedly finds love on one side of the Native Title divide she quickly learns that living on country is only part of the recipe for the Good Life.
Told with humour and a sharp satirical eye, Mullumbimby is a modern novel set against an ancient land.
Winner, 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards – Prize for Indigenous Writing
Shortlisted, 2014 Kibble Literary Awards – Nita Kibble Literary Award
Longlisted, 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award
Longlisted, 2014 The Stella Prize
Winner, 2013 Queensland Literary Awards – Fiction Book Award – Deloitte Fiction Book Award