TY  - BOOK
AU  - Higgs,Annette
TI  - On a bright hillside in Paradise
SN  - 9781761049736
PY  - 2023///
CY  - [Melbourne]
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Families
KW  - Australia
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Strangers
KW  - Nature
KW  - Effect of human beings on
KW  - Tasmania
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "Winner Penguin Literary Prize" -- Cover
N2  - 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
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