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  • Winner, Miles Franklin Award 1999
  • Winner, Commonwealth Writers' Prize 1999

There was once a man on a property outside a one-horse town, in New South Wales, who couldn’t come to a decision about his daughter. He then made an unexpected decision. Incredible! For a while people talked and dreamed about little else…

Murray Bail’s Miles Franklin award winning novel.


Praise for Murray Bail and Eucalyptus:

‘A magical new novel—it leaves you hungering for more.’

New York Times Book Review

‘A wonderful story brilliantly told—There is not a false note. A complex remembrance of individual eucalypts becomes part of the emotional fabric of a moving, exhilarating love story.’

Australian

‘A masterpiece.’

Spectator

‘You will never forget what is at the heart of this book one of the great and most surprising courtships in literature.’

Michael Ondaatje

‘Buy this book. You won’t have read anything like it.’

Evening Standard

‘An astonishing achievement.’

Independent Magazine
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Murray Bail

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Murray Bail was born in Adelaide in 1941. He has won numerous awards, including the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Miles Franklin Literary Award for Eucalyptus. His most recent novel, The Pages, was published in 2008 to great acclaim.


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  • RRP: $22.99
  • Pub date: 01/11/1998
  • ISBN: 9781875847945
  • Extent: 264pp
  • Format: Paperback (B format)
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  • Pub date: 16/05/2010
  • ISBN: 9781921776991
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