International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award 2002

Books nominated for the 2002 Award

With university behind her, Emily Stanton finds herself on the threshold of life. Introduced to a Scottish engineer, the exoticism of his life in Paris beckons, and she leaves her family home in twenties Melbourne to become his wife. But far from providing answers, her conventional marriage awakens in her an ardent desire to find a reason for living beyond that of simply wife and mother, a desire that leads her to flirt with risk, passion and unorthodox friendships, and carries her to Tunisia on a journey of self-questioning and intellectual reawakening.
Conditions of Faith is a provocative romance, but also a meditation on a timeless dilemma. Emily Stanton is in search of a reason for living in a society where motherhood is deemed reason enough. A story of dreams, obsessions and destiny.

Alex Miller won the Miles Franklin Award, the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Barbara Ramsden Award for best book of the year in 1993 with his third novel, The Ancestor Game. His previous novels were Watching the Climbers on the Mountains and Tivington Nott and in 1995 he published The Sitters. He was born in London of an Irish mother and a Scottish father. He came alone to Australia at age seventeen and for some years worked as an itinerant stockman of cattle stations in Central Queensland and the Gulf Country. He eventually travelled south and enrolled at Melbourne University, where he read History and English. He now lives in Melbourne with his wife and children and writes full-time.

Conditions of Faith	Nominated ISBN: 0340766662	Find out more about the author on the following websites: Brief author biography and bibliography *Seattle Times* review of Conditions of Faith Read an excerpt from Conditions of Faith
by
Alex Miller

Nominated by:
State Library of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia

Books nominated for the 2002 Award
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