Kate Cole-Adams

Kate Cole-Adams is a writer and journalist. She lives with her family in Melbourne. Walking to the Moon is her first novel, and was shortlisted in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards (Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript) in 2006. It will be published by Text Publishing in July 2008.

Books by Kate Cole-Adams

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  Walking to the Moon

  When I stood up I could not see my mother. She was not on the beach, and when I looked back across the water she was not there either. I asked, or was about to ask, where she had gone when I saw something floating a little way off, not far from the shore. In the icy elongated moment that followed I could neither move nor hear nor speak.

  A woman wakes from a coma, its cause unknown. She refuses to see her family; she does not say why. Slowly, almost reluctantly, she becomes stronger. Now she will walk. Where?

  Walking to the Moon, Kate Cole-Adams' enthralling, seductive first novel is both a psychological journey and a piercing exploration of abandonment and loss. A work of striking subtlety and maturity, it heralds the arrival of a brilliant new voice in Australian literature.

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