Mary-Rose MacColl

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Mary-Rose MacColl is the author of six novels, a nonfiction maternity book, an autiobiography, and several short stories. She is also a journalist and essayist. MacColl’s first novel, No Safe Place, was a runner-up for the Australian/Vogel Literary Award. Her first nonfiction book, The Birth Wars, was a finalist for a Walkley Award and a Queensland Premier’s Literary Award. In Falling Snow and Swimming Home have both been published internationally, and Swimming Home won the Courier-Mail People’s Choice Award in 2016. For a Girl was shortlisted for a Queensland Literary Award and a Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. The True Story of Maddie Bright/Lost Autumn is MacColl’s latest novel.