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Tree Palace

Tree Palace 1

by Craig Sherborne
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/03/2014
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Longlisted for the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award
They tried Mansfield but it was freezing and snowed and people like them don't fit in becausethey don't look prosperous. One time near Yellingbo they found a church no one prayed in andthey lived there and for three weeks had stained glass for windows...They got chased out andwent to Shepparton but Shane had a run-in and police said move.
Shane, Moira and Midge, along with young Zara and Rory, are 'trants'-itinerants roaming theplains north-west of Melbourne in search of disused houses to sleep in, or to strip of heritagefittings when funds are low. When they find their Tree Palace outside Barleyville, things arelooking up. At last, a place in which to settle down.
But Zara, fifteen, is pregnant and doesn't want a child. She'd rather a normal life with town boys,not trant life with a baby. Moira decides to step in- she'll look after her grandchild. Then Shanefinds himself in trouble with the local cops...
Warmly told and witty, Craig Sherborne's second novel is a revelation-an affecting story offamily and rural life.
ISBN:
9781922147325
9781922147325
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-03-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
Text Publishing
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
328
Dimensions (mm):
234x153x25mm
Weight:
0.44kg
Craig Sherborne

Craig Sherborne’s memoir Hoi Polloi (2005) was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s and Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards. The follow-up, Muck (2007), won the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Non-fiction.

Craig’s first novel, The Amateur Science of Love (2011), won the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award, and was shortlisted for a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award and a NSW Premier’s Literary Award.

His second novel, Tree Palace (2014), was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Craig has also written two volumes of poetry, Bullion (1995) and Necessary Evil (2005), and a verse drama, Look at Everything Twice for Me (1999). He lives outside Melbourne.

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Tree Palace is the second novel by Australian author, playwright and poet, Craig Sherborne. Moira, Shane, Midge, Zara and Rory are trants (itinerants). After many years of moving around, they have stopped at Barleyville, on the plains west of Melbourne, squatting in a derelict old cottage they call their Tree Palace, annexed by their caravan and a tent. Half-brothers Shane and Midge are accomplished at salvaging sought-after heritage-quality fittings from old homesteads. They are also experts at getting social security benefits whilst staying under the radar. They may be trants, and there may be no water or power laid on at their palace, but Moira still insists on certain standards in raising her children, Zara and Rory. And now theres Mathew, fifteen-year-old Zaras baby. But Moira finds that Zara is less than enamoured with the idea of motherhood, Rory is getting into mischief, the Police dont like her driving without a licence and Shanes business is running into problems. Sherborne gives the reader a revealing look at the world of itinerants and squatters, their principles and morals, their values, virtues and vices, their loves and loyalties. Readers may well gasp at the lack of guilt or conscience that his characters display when taking something they feel they need, be it a necklace from Salvos, a lead-light window from a homestead or a place to settle down. Nonetheless, his characters are familiar, see in any town, and their dialogue is natural and credible. Sherborne treats the reader to some wonderfully descriptive prose: The best thing was the house. When they first saw it it no longer looked liveable because the grass sprouted in the roof and pushed up through the floor. That could be dealt with. It was old with a wrinkled feel the way the weatherboards had peeled and twisted. From the front it looked like a face with its open door hanging wide from the hinges and either side a window for eyes. Tattered blinds fluttered like eyelids and when birds flew out of the broken glass the window could have been blinking is just one example. An eye-opening read.

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