Just Relations

by Rodney Hall

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Set in Whitey's Fall, a remote settlement harbouring a long-defunct gold mine and a mythic mountain of gold, Rodney Hall's third novel chronicles the lives of the town's ancient and inbred villagers. They are aghast when the government proposes to turn their town into a tourist attraction and bring it into the modern world.… (more)

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The story of the residents of Whitey's Fall: mostly old, set in their ways and all linked in different relationships. There were a few good parts, but on the whole this book dragged on and was not engaging enough. (

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The Age Book of the Year Award (Shortlist – Fiction – 1982)

Barbara Ramsden Prize (1983)

Miles Franklin Literary Award (Winner – 1982)

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To the future: my darling daughters, Imogen, Delia and Cressida

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If it's the day of the letters we're talking about, Miss Felicia Brinsmead was in top form.

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Set in Whitey's Fall, a remote settlement harbouring a long-defunct gold mine and a mythic mountain of gold, Rodney Hall's third novel chronicles the lives of the town's ancient and inbred villagers. They are aghast when the government proposes to turn their town into a tourist attraction and bring it into the modern world.

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"The residents of Whitney's Fall are aged between 80 and 114. In this remote Australian mining town they are a bastion against the empty promise of progress. In fact they are the guardians of the land's unfulfilled dream, a mountain of gold awaiting the gentle kiss of gelignite..."

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