On A Bright Hillside In Paradise by Annette Higgs - ISBN: 9781761049736
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Convict family in Tasmania faces faith, strangers, and their hard lives.

On A Bright Hillside In Paradise

Winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize

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  • Paperback

    320 pages

  • Release Date

    18 July 2023

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Summary

From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize.

‘A jewel of a novel- luminous, vivid, and deftly shaped.’ - FIONA MCFARLANE

Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard-scrabble lives. The drama begins when strangers arrive, Christian Brethren evangelists who hol…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781761049736
ISBN-10:1761049739
Author:Annette Higgs
Publisher:Random House Australia
Imprint:Vintage
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:320
Release Date:18 July 2023
Weight:426g
Dimensions:30mm x 234mm x 159mm
About The Author

Annette Higgs

Annette Higgs is a writer living in Sydney, Australia. She was born and grew up in Tasmania, leaving on her 18th birthday to study literature and law at the Australian National University in Canberra. She has lived, worked and studied in Sydney, London and Italy, and holds a Doctor of Arts from the University of Sydney. A Pushcart nominee, her short work has appeared in literary journals and anthologies in Australia, the USA, the UK and India. Her novel On a Bright Hillside in Paradise won the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize.

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