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2008 Nominated

The Stone Angel

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Stella Boyd is a successful journalist for a women’s magazine. She reports from some of the world’s most exotic and dangerous places, and “home” is wherever her work takes her. She’s young and independent. She has her life under control.
Then an urgent fax arrives and six words bring her world crashing down: Your father is missing at sea.
Within days, Stella is back in the small Tasmanian fishing village where she grew up. She hasn’t been to Halfmoon Bay for fifteen years – and she desperately doesn’t want to face the memories that await her.
But as she takes part in the search for her father, and struggles to understand her distant mother, Stella finds herself taken back to 1975. The summer she met Zeph, a young man sailing the world alone. The extraordinary summer that ended in tragedy…

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Katherine
Scholes

Katherine Scholes is an international bestselling author with over two million books sold. She was born in Tanzania and six of her adult novels are set there, during the independence era of the 1960s. She was the first artist to travel to Antarctica as a guest of the Australian Antarctic Division. Her novel she wrote afterwards won a New South Wales State Literary Award. The Stone Angel, set in east coast Tasmania, was longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her forthcoming novel, One Night at Silver Lake (2026)brings together her two homelands, Tanzania and Tasmania. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and includes children’s fiction and non-fiction as well as novels for adults. She has also had a career as a filmmaker.

Katherine Scholes is an international bestselling author with over two million books sold. She was born in Tanzania and six of her adult novels are set there, during the independence era of the 1960s. She was the first artist to travel to Antarctica as a guest of the Australian Antarctic Division. Her novel she wrote afterwards won a New South Wales State Literary Award. The Stone Angel, set in east coast Tasmania, was longlisted in the International Dublin Literary Awards. Her forthcoming novel, One Night at Silver Lake (2026)brings together her two homelands, Tanzania and Tasmania. Her work has been translated into over a dozen languages and includes children’s fiction and non-fiction as well as novels for adults. She has also had a career as a filmmaker.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Australia
Original Language
English
Publisher
Pan Macmillan Australia

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