A novel about what it means to have no place to call home, and no family to turn to. Manna, named for the regal white gums and yellow-tailed black cockatoos of the Central Highlands of Tasmania, was a wild, strong, fiercely independent child. But Manna’s life was torn apart, first by her mother’s abandonment, then by her father’s coldness. Craving connection, yet wounded by her past, Manna pushes away the last of the people she cares about.
This was Karen Harrland's debut novel. Her first book, the memoir Spinifex Baby, won the 2014 National Finch Memoir Prize. Karen passed away in a rafting accident on the Franklin River in 2025.
BOOK DETAILS
- Softcover
- Published 2022
- 258-pages
CONDITION
New.
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