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The Grisly Wife
The Grisly Wife is a 1993 Miles Franklin literary award-winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall.[1] The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision."[2] This novel is the second book in The Yandilli Trilogy (also referred to as A Dream More Luminous Than Love), though the third to be published, following the novels Captivity Captive in 1988, and The Second Bridegroom in 1991.[1] SynopsisCatherine Byrne marries self-proclaimed prophet Muley Moloch and leaves 19th-century England with him and his eight female disciples to search for paradise on earth in the wilds of Australia. But things do not work out as planned, as a shipwreck, illness and death cause the small group to fracture. Critical receptionJeff Doyle in The Canberra Times noted: "Hall is not so basic nor simplistic to provide a kind of allegorical reading of these issues under his stories. No, such a naive, perhaps crassly simple, view is the job of a reviewer bent on hinting at the multiple ideas running through the book."[3] Awards
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