Grace and Marigold

Grace and Marigold is an engrossing, deeply satisfying read, filled with unforgettable characters. It is an intelligent and evocative study of a tumultuous time and place, and a moving and thought-provoking portrait of self-discovery. —Michelle Wright, author of Small Acts of Defiance Mira Robertson is like a perceptive street photographer, but with words, capturing dazzling snapshots of remarkable people in a fleeting moment and place. We slip into a pitch-perfect London in the seventies alongside Grace, as her life swirls with squatters and strikes, casual encounters and shifting alliances, fears and freedoms, and those too-familiar feelings of the outsider. If you were there, then, you’ll remember. If you weren’t there, Grace and Marigold will bring it vividly to life before your eyes. —Kelly Gardiner, author of Goddess A vivid, irresistible portrait of a young Australian adrift in eccentric 1970s London. Taut and beautifully crafted, Mira Robertson writes with a tender understanding of the waywardness of youth. — Carrie Tiffany, winner of the Stella Prize for Mateship with Birds I want to live in this novel. A vivid Sapphic coming-of-age romp through bohemian 1970s London. Witty, moving and utterly real. —Kate Davies, author of Nuclear Family