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The
2004 Award
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Windmill Hill by Michael Jacobson |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| Blink
Johns is more than just a gardener: he is a man who has drawn life and beauty
from the earth. But his mind is closing down, retreating into images of
the past and taking him away from his family. Now, though, it's not just his mind that is being taken away. His grandson kidnaps him from the nursing home and they head for the lunar landscape of Queenstown in western Tasmania, a place so ravaged by mining that it looks like a battlefield. He knows that if he can just get Blink there, he can give him one last chance at a dignified and creative life. And through one apparently simple slip of the old man's tongue, Michael Jacobson moves deftly between present and past to unfold a tragic story of friendship, war, and old age that is strangely beautiful and leads us to an unexpectedly optimistic and inspiring conclusion. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Michael Jacobson was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1961. He has been a journalist since 1980, having worked in Launceston, Hobart, Sydney and now the Gold Coast, where he has lived for the past thirteen years. He is a book reviewer, magazine editor and chief feature writer for the Gold Coast Bulletin and is married with two children. Windmill Hill is his first novel. |
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