On A Bright Hillside In Paradise

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: VINTAGE
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 309 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout.

Publishers Description: From the winner of the 2022 Penguin Literary Prize.Told from five different points of view, each one revealing something different, On a Bright Hillside in Paradise, tells the story of a family of convict descendants in the back-blocks of Tasmania, on a farm in a place called Paradise. They lead hard-scrabble lives. The drama begins when strangers arrive, Christian Brethren evangelists who hold big revival meetings in local barns.On a Bright Hillside in Paradise tackles big questions of faith and family but remains grounded in the dreams and strivings of its beautifully drawn characters. Higgs takes lives that history might have judged as small and imbues them with immense dignity and complex and compelling inner lives.Avoiding the myth of the ‘frontier pioneer On a Bright Hillside in Paradise instead shows how these convict descendants wanted nothing more than to retreat to the bush to heal from their trauma, developing a deep love of the landscape in the process.At its heart the novel is about a close-knit community, and home-making in the bush. Despite injuries, losses, deaths, and near-starvation the family survives.

ISBN: 9781761049736