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Sixty Lights
  • Published: 2 May 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099472032
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
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Sixty Lights

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'Breathtaking grace and immense skill... Engaging, beautiful, magical and compelling' Irish Times

Sixty Lights is the captivating chronicle of Lucy Strange, an independent girl growing up in the Victorian world. From her childhood in Australia through to her adolescence in England and Bombay and finally to London, Lucy is fascinated by light and by the new photographic technology. Her perception of the world is passionate and moving, revealed in a series of frozen images captured in the camera of her mind's eye showing her feelings about love, life and loss. In this confident, finely woven and intricate novel Jones has created an unforgettable character in Lucy; visionary, gifted and exuberant, she touches the lives of all who know her.
  • Published: 2 May 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099472032
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 256
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

About the author

Gail Jones

Gail Jones is one of Australia’s most celebrated writers. She is the author of two short-story collections and ten novels, and her work has been translated into several languages and has received numerous literary awards. Originally from Western Australia, she now lives in Sydney.
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Praise for Sixty Lights

A very special novel indeed

Tom Boncza-Tomaszewski, Independent on Sunday

Gem-like, lyrical portrait of a girl growing-up

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

Jones has a flair for luminous and accurate prose... A passionate book

Guardian

An immensely well crafted novel

Sunday Independent

Reads like a luminous album of photographs marked by an almost unbearable sadness

Weekend Australian