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Author

Gail Jones

Gail Jones lives in Sydney. She has written short stories and novels and has been short listed for major national and international awards such as the Man Booker Prize and the Miles Franklin Award.

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Title:

Our Shadows (MP3)

Written by:

Gail Jones 

Read by:

Eleanor Stankiewicz 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

7 hours 59 minutes 

MP3 size:

349 MB 

Published:

June 28 2024 

Available Date:

June 28 2024 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781038676467 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

Bolinda price

AUD$ 39.95

AUD$ 39.95

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Australian author

Shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards / Prize for Fiction 2021
Shortlisted Voss Literary Prize 2021
Shortlisted ARA Historical Novel Prize / Adult 2021
Longlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award 2021

Our Shadows tells the story of three generations of family living in Kalgoorlie, where gold was discovered in 1893 by an Irish-born prospector named Paddy Hannan.

Sisters Nell and Frances were raised by their grandparents and were once closely bound by reading and fantasy. Now they live in Sydney and are estranged. Each in her own way struggles with the loss of their parents. Little by little the sisters grow to understand the imaginative force of the past and the legacy of their shared orphanhood. Then Frances decides to make a journey home to the goldfields to explore what lies hidden and unspoken in their lives, in the shadowy tunnels of the past.

'Touching on love, illness and grief, it is hauntingly beautiful.'
Good Weekend

'Gail Jones deftly and sensitively brings together these disparate stories into a meditation on grief, loss, estrangement, identity and, strangely enough, mining and underground rescue. The concepts and feelings tackled here are beautifully universal, but told in a context that is uniquely Australian.'
Readings

'Praised for her precise, incisive observations, Jones’s writing frequently offers nuanced reflections on the cultural state of Australia as well as quiet revelations about the lives of her characters. Our Shadows is no exception … written like the wave that haunts its imaginative landscape, ebbing and flowing from past generations to the present and back again.'
Guardian

'It is a poetic and beautifully crafted evocation of shadowy pasts whose traumatic effects (in the world and in individual lives) stretch deep into the present and the future.'
Australian Book Review