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Smokehouse

By: Melissa Manning
Narrated by: Zoe Carides
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Winner of the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction

An accomplished story collection that is deeply rooted in the Tasmanian landscape and those moments in people's lives when everything changes.

Set in southern Tasmania, the linked stories in Smokehouse bring into focus a small community and capture those moments when life turns and one person becomes another. As we get to know these characters—a mother whose fresh start leads to a fractured future, a stonemason seeking connection, a woman grieving her adopted mother, a couple torn apart by their daughter's drug addiction—we learn how their lives intersect, in various ways, across time and place.

With insight and empathy, Melissa Manning interrogates how the people we meet and the places we live shape who we become.

©2021 Melissa Manning (P)2023 W. F. Howes Ltd Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Short Stories
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Real and full of raw emotion. So relatable that it felt like I was sitting in the car with them as they drove by the landmarks I know and love, or warming myself by the fireplace chatting and drinking with the eclectic and eccentric characters who remind me of locals I have met. I found myself utterly immersed in their intertwined stories. Zoe Caries as narrator is a perfect mix of earthiness and Aussie drawl.

Utterly brilliant!

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