Whale Rock

by Diana Plater

Overview

Gold Medal Winner
Popular Literature Fiction
2019 Global Ebook Awards

A woman grieves for her unborn child, an Indigenous elder seeks his mother’s story, a Nicaraguan immigrant pines for the revolution, a journalist fights her memory of the horrors of Kosovo. A labourer plunges to his death on a building site. All hell breaks loose…

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155989707
Publisher:	Tellwell Talent
Publication date:	03/29/2019
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Diana Plater was born in Boston, Massachusetts, USA but grew up in Sydney, Australia. Her journalism has appeared widely in newspapers, magazines and online. She has covered Indigenous and race issues since the beginning of her career and was based in Nicaragua in the mid-1980s during the Sandinista/Contra war. She has written several non-fiction books, including Taking Control: How to aim for a successful pregnancy after miscarriage, stillbirth or neo-natal loss, and the Cootamundra Girls Home chapter in Many Voices, Reflections on experiences of Indigenous child separation published by the National Library as well as a play, Havana, Harlem. Raging Partners, written with Ollie Smith, was short-listed for a 2001 NSW Premier’s Literary Award. Whale Rock is her first novel.

Editorial Reviews

Whale Rock is provocative, stormy and sensual. Diana Plater gives us both human brutality and sensitivity in 21^st century Sydney.

Alejandro Pérez, poet, Chile.

From the Publisher