Journey to the Stone Country : Winner of the 2003 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Journey to the Stone Country : Winner of the 2003 Miles Franklin Literary Award
ISBN: 9781741141467
Publication Date: 1 September 2006

Winner of the 2003 Miles Franklin Award. Following his previous best-selling, prize-winning novels, The Ancestor Game and Conditions of Faith, Alex Miller's new novel, Journey to the Stone Country, now in paperback, is a superbly compelling work of betrayals, compassion, secrets and reconciliation.

A terrific tale of love and redemption that captivates from the first line.' Nicholas Shakespeare, author of The Dancer Upstairs.

Betrayed by her husband, Annabelle Beck retreats from Melbourne to her old family home in tropical North Queensland where she meets Bo Rennie, one of the Jangga tribe. Intrigued by Bo's claim that he holds the key to her future, Annabelle sets out with him on a path of recovery that leads back to her childhood and into the Jangga's ancient heartland, where their grandparents' lives begin to yield secrets that will challenge the possibility of their happiness together.

With the consummate artistry of a novelist working at the height of his powers, Miller convinces us that the stone country is not only a remote and exotic location in North Queensland, but is also an unvisited place within each of us. Journey to the Stone Country confirms Miller's reputation as one of Australia's most intelligent and uncompromising writers.

Miller's fiction has a mystifying power that is always far more than the sum of its parts . . . his footsteps - softly, deftly, steadily - take you places you may not have been, and their sound resonates for a long time.' Andrea Stretton, Sydney Morning Herald

About the Author

Alex Miller is twice winner of Australia's premier literary prize, The Miles Franklin Literary Award, first in 1993 for The Ancestor Game and again in 2003 for Journey to the Sto...