Collected Stories Gillian Mears

Gillian Mears is a courageous and strikingly original storyteller who has twice won Commonwealth Writers’ regional awards, as well as the coveted Vogel Award. Her early stories – from the prizewinning Ride a Cock Horse and the critically acclaimed Fineflour – chronicle life in small country towns. Their raw atmosphere of grief and sadness is alleviated by Mears’ consistently unconventional sense of the comic. the later stories use a wider lens, introducing a shift in sexual orientation and presenting different angels on the country town, along with locales in Africa, France and England.”Passionate, intimate, intuitive recollections of life … intense, lyrical and profoundly celebratory.”Karen Lamb, Age