Grace Beside Me

Teacher Resource

Publisher's synopsis

A warmly rendered story of life in a small town that interweaves the mundane with the profound and the spiritual. Told through the eyes of teenager, Fuzzy Mac, awkward episodes of teen rivalry and romance sit alongside the mystery of Nan’s visions and a ghostly encounter. Against a backdrop of quirky characters, including the holocaust survivor who went to school with Einstein and the little priest always rushing off to bury someone before the heat gets to them, Grace Beside Me is full of humour and timely wisdom.

WINNER – 2011 black&write! kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Fellowship

SHORTLISTED – 2013 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (Young Adult category)

FINALIST – 2012 Deadly Awards (Outstanding Achievement in Literature category)

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Sue McPherson is a visual artist living in Eumundi, Queensland. She was born in Sydney to an Aboriginal mother, from Wiradjuri country. Sue was adopted into the McPherson family, landowners from the Batlow area in New South Wales, when she was very young. A weekend writing workshop inspired Sue to join a writers’ group and commit to writing a young adults novel, Grace Beside Me which won the kuril dhagun Indigenous Writing Competition through the State Library of Queensland.

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Further Details

Author Sue McPherson

Publisher Magabala Books

Date of Publication 2012

ISBN 9781921248498

Category Young Adult

SCIS number

5473011