Publisher's synopsis
The acclaimed story of Faith, a rock singer who lives in Kings Cross and Angel, a dreamy homeless girl. Angel is surrounded by dangers; her fragile hold on life weakened by the violence of a client and her spiralling drug habit. Faith is a born outsider who has an intense commitment to saving Angel due to unresolved events in her own wild life – an eccentric upbringing by a communist aunt, her roller-coaster career as a famous singer, passionate love affairs and the fate of her beloved daughter. Faith Singer both chronicles the powerful friendship between them and celebrates the life of an extraordinary woman and the city she lives in. It was included in an international list of ‘50 Essential Reads by living Writers’ compiled by The Guardian, Orange Prize Committee and the Hay Literary Festival.
Rosie Scott is an internationally published award-winning writer who has published six critically acclaimed novels, a collection each of short stories, poems and essays and edited two anthologies. Her award-winning play was the basis for a film which received several international prizes.
She is a permanent member of the Council of Australian Society of Authors, holds the Sydney PEN Award, and an honorary membership of PEN and together with Tom Keneally was nominated for the Human Rights Medal. She was also nominated for the education section of 100 most influential people in Sydney for her work in mentoring and teaching about asylum seekers. She co-founded Women for Wik.
Her last novel Faith Singer was on the list of 50 Essential Reads by Contemporary Writers compiled by the Orange Committee, the Guardian and Hays Literary Festival
Her latest book is A Country Too Far, the much discussed anthology on asylum seekers co-edited with Tom Keneally.
