ACT Book of the Year
Highly Commended 2011
Alison Booth Stillwater Creek |
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SYNOPSIS
It is 1957 and, after the death of her husband, pianist Ilona Talivaldis and her nine-year-old daughter Zidra travel to the remote coastal town of Jingera in New South Wales. Ilona, a concentration camp survivor from Latvia, is searching for peace and an opportunity to start anew. In her beautiful vine-covered cottage on the edge of the lagoon, she plans to set herself up as a piano teacher.
The weeks pass, and slowly mother and daughter get to know the townsfolk - including kind-hearted butcher George Cadwallader who is forever gazing at the stars; his son Jim, a boy wise beyond his years; Peter Vincent, a former wartime pilot and POW; and Cherry Bates, the publican’s wife who is about to make a horrifying discovery...
For Jingera is not quite the utopia Ilona imagines it to be - and at risk is the one thing Ilona holds dear...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Alison Booth began writing fiction as a child, abandoned it in her twenties and returned to writing short – and infrequent - stories in the late 1990s. Some years later she wrote Stillwater Creek, her first novel, which was published by Random House Australia in January 2010. This was followed by The Indigo Sky, published in January 2011. Alison has now completed her third book, The Memory Tree, which will be published by Random House Australia in 2012.
Born in Melbourne and brought up in Sydney, Alison Booth obtained her PhD from the London School of Economics in 1984. After two decades living and working in the UK, she returned to Australia in 2002 to take up an appointment at the Australian National University. She is married with two daughters.
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