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'When the eldest daughter of a whaling family in Eden, New South Wales, sets out to chronicle the particularly difficult season of 1908, the story she tells is poignant and hilarious, filled with drama and misadventure.
Swinging from her own hopes and disappointments, both domestic and romantic, to the challenges that beset their tiny whaling operation, Mary's tale is entirely relatable despite the hundred-odd years that separate her world from ours.
Chronicling her family's struggle to survive the season and her own attempts to navigate an all-consuming crush on an itinerant whaleman with a murky past, Rush Oh! is also a celebration of an extraordinary episode in Australian history when a family of whalers formed a fond, unique allegiance with a pod of Killer whales - and in particular, a Killer whale named Tom.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Dedication: For Sabrina and Emmeline
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Also sound recording.
- Also large print.
Works about this Work
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Three Generations of Sydney Women Finalists for the 2016 Kibble Literary Award
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 7 June 2016; 'Three generations of Sydney women are represented on the shortlist for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for women's life writing. ...' -
Or, the Whale
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The New York Times Book Review , 3 April 2016; (p. 11)
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel -
Shirley Barrett, Rush Oh
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Saturday Paper , 26 September 2015;
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel -
Review : Rush Oh!
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , July vol. 95 no. 1 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel -
Review : Rush Oh!
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , November 2015; (p. 46)
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel
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Whaler’s Daughter Recalls Glory and Gore of Old Eden
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 5-6 September 2015; (p. 16)
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel -
A Whale of a Time in Eden’s Waters
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 17-18 October 2015; (p. 30-31) The Saturday Age , 17-18 October 2015; (p. 26)
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel -
[Review] Rush Oh!
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 24 October 2015; (p. 27)
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel -
Review : Rush Oh!
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Good Reading , November 2015; (p. 46)
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel -
Review : Rush Oh!
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , July vol. 95 no. 1 2015; (p. 22)
— Review of Rush Oh! 2015 single work novel -
Shirley Barrett
Caroline Baum
(interviewer),
2015
single work
interview
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 19-20 September 2015; (p. 24-25) The Sunday Age , 20 September 2015; (p. 24) -
Three Generations of Sydney Women Finalists for the 2016 Kibble Literary Award
2016
single work
column
— Appears in: Brisbane Times , 7 June 2016; 'Three generations of Sydney women are represented on the shortlist for the $30,000 Kibble Literary Award for women's life writing. ...'
Awards
- 2016 shortlisted Kibble Literary Awards — Nita May Dobbie Award
- 2016 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
- 2016 shortlisted Indie Awards — Debut Fiction
- 2016 longlisted Women's Prize Trust Awards — Women's Prize for Fiction (UK)
- Eden, Eden area, Far South Coast, South Coast, New South Wales,
- 1908