Extract in Good Reading magazine, October 2017
Patricia Holland was born in Liverpool, England, but has lived in
Australia since the age of five, in Melbourne and on farms and
cattle stations in Central and North Queensland. She now teaches at
a secondary college and lives in a coastal town near Yeppoon in
Central Queensland.
Patricia's publications include: journalism articles in magazines
and newspapers, including Queensland Country Life, Outback
Magazine, National Farmer, Townsville Bulletin, The Morning
Bulletin (Rockhampton), and The Northern Miner (Charters Towers);
short stories in Idiom magazine; and a children’s book, Patch the
Australian Cattle Dog (1999), which won a regional education
award.
Patricia's first novel, The Styx, is dedicated to the memory of her
eldest daughter, Sophie, who suffered from Rett Syndrome and died
when she was seven years old. Earlier drafts of the manuscript were
selected for Hachette’s Manuscript Development Program in 2015 and
Legend Press’s Luke Bitmead Bursary in which it placed third in
2016.
“A movingly-great read! A great story teller. … [A] resilient, eccentric character who will live long in both heart and memory.” John Wenitong (Pemulwuy Weeatunga, author of The Fethafoot Chronicles)
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