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Start giftingThe Whole Bright Year
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Learn moreIn the summer of 1976 it's picking season on an Australian stone-fruit orchard run by Celia, a hard-working woman in her early forties. Years ago, when her husband was killed as a bystander in an armed robbery, Celia left the city and brought her newborn daughter Zoe to this farm for a secure life. Now sixteen, Zoe is a passionate, intelligent girl, chafing against her mother's protectiveness, yearning to find intensity and a bit of danger.
Barging into this world as itinerant fruit-pickers come a desperate brother and sister from Sydney. The hard-bitten Sheena has kidnapped her wild, ebullient eighteen-year-old brother Kieran and dragged him out west, away from trouble in the city. Kieran and Zoe are drawn to each other the instant they meet, sparking excitement, worry, lust, trouble . . .
How do we protect people we love? How do we bear watching them go out into the perilous world with no guarantee of safety or happiness? What bargains do people make with darkness in order to survive? From the creator of Offspring and author of Useful, The Whole Bright Year is a gripping, wry and tender novel about how holding on too tightly can cost us what we love.
Debra Oswald (Author)
Debra Oswald is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the creator/head writer of the first five seasons of the TV series Offspring.
Her stage plays have been performed around the world and are published by Currency Press. Gary's House, Sweet Road and The Peach Season were all shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award. Debra has also written four plays for young audiences - Dags, Skate, Stories in the Dark and House on Fire.
Her television credits include Police Rescue, Palace of Dreams, The Secret Life of Us, Sweet and Sour and Bananas in Pyjamas.
Debra has written three Aussie Bite books for kids and six children's novels, including The Redback Leftovers and Getting Air. Her first adult novel, Useful, was published in 2015.
Maria Angelico (Reader)
Maria Angelico played the lead role of Julia in Network Ten's Sisters, from producer Imogen Banks. Recent projects include sketch comedy Orange is the New Brown; ABC's Glitch,The InBESTigators, and Get Krackin'; and Network Ten's Mr Black and How to Stay Married. Maria played Sagitarius in Zero Point (for Undergrowth) and the lead role of Florence in Other People's Problems. She also created, wrote and starred in her own web series, Movement. On stage, Maria played the lead role of Daphna in the 2015-16 national tour of the Australian premiere production of Bad Jews, from Ellis Productions. Her feature film credits include Blessed, Under a Red Moon and Hating Alison Ashley. TV credits include Wentworth, Underground, Rush, City Homicide, Home and Away, Trip for Biscuits, We Can Be Heroes, Neighbours, Blue Heelers and Footballer Wants a Wife.
Having worked professionally since her teens, Maria received a place in the inaugural Scholarship Course at the Melbourne Theatre Company. She has studied at Melbourne's 16th Street Acting Studio, Susan Batson Studios NY and with acting coaches Larry Moss, Ivana Chubbuck, Elizabeth Kemp (The Actors Studio), Penelope Chater and Penelope McDonald.
Debra Oswald (Author)
Debra Oswald is a two-time winner of the NSW Premier's Literary Award and the creator/head writer of the first five seasons of the TV series Offspring.
Her stage plays have been performed around the world and are published by Currency Press. Gary's House, Sweet Road and The Peach Season were all shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Award. Debra has also written four plays for young audiences - Dags, Skate, Stories in the Dark and House on Fire.
Her television credits include Police Rescue, Palace of Dreams, The Secret Life of Us, Sweet and Sour and Bananas in Pyjamas.
Debra has written three Aussie Bite books for kids and six children's novels, including The Redback Leftovers and Getting Air. Her first adult novel, Useful, was published in 2015.
Maria Angelico (Reader)
Maria Angelico played the lead role of Julia in Network Ten's Sisters, from producer Imogen Banks. Recent projects include sketch comedy Orange is the New Brown; ABC's Glitch,The InBESTigators, and Get Krackin'; and Network Ten's Mr Black and How to Stay Married. Maria played Sagitarius in Zero Point (for Undergrowth) and the lead role of Florence in Other People's Problems. She also created, wrote and starred in her own web series, Movement. On stage, Maria played the lead role of Daphna in the 2015-16 national tour of the Australian premiere production of Bad Jews, from Ellis Productions. Her feature film credits include Blessed, Under a Red Moon and Hating Alison Ashley. TV credits include Wentworth, Underground, Rush, City Homicide, Home and Away, Trip for Biscuits, We Can Be Heroes, Neighbours, Blue Heelers and Footballer Wants a Wife.
Having worked professionally since her teens, Maria received a place in the inaugural Scholarship Course at the Melbourne Theatre Company. She has studied at Melbourne's 16th Street Acting Studio, Susan Batson Studios NY and with acting coaches Larry Moss, Ivana Chubbuck, Elizabeth Kemp (The Actors Studio), Penelope Chater and Penelope McDonald.