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Di Morrissey

Author of Tears of the Moon

47+ Works 2,010 Members 62 Reviews 2 Favorited

About the Author

Author Di Morrissey grew up in Pittwater, Australia where she was influenced by the writers, musicians, artists and actors who lived there. Since she could not afford to go to university, she worked for the Australian Consolidated Press and trained as a journalist. She married an American diplomat show more and was posted in Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Indonesia and Guyana. During this time, she wrote articles and broadcast in various countries. She published her first book, Heart of the Dreaming, in 1991. Since then, she has written fourteen novels making her Australia's most popular woman novelist. She believes the success of her novels is due to them being written about and for Australians by dealing with such themes as heritage, love of family, Australian identity, protection of the environment, and reconciliation and awareness of Aboriginal culture. She is also a member of the National Centre for Breast Cancer's Advisory Board, a founding board member of Leadership Action Australia, a life member of the Royal Institute for Deaf and Blind Children, and a Patron of Southern Cross University's Centre for Whale research. She has lived in Byron Bay for the last fifteen years. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Works by Di Morrissey

Tears of the Moon (1995) 200 copies, 5 reviews
The Reef (2004) 121 copies, 2 reviews
Barra Creek (2003) 117 copies, 2 reviews
The Plantation (2010) 108 copies, 3 reviews
The Valley (2006) 106 copies, 6 reviews
Monsoon (2007) 98 copies, 2 reviews
Kimberley Sun (2002) 95 copies, 2 reviews
The Islands (2008) 94 copies, 3 reviews
Heart of the Dreaming (1991) 83 copies, 1 review
The Winter Sea (2013) 76 copies, 4 reviews
The Silent Country (2009) 74 copies, 3 reviews
The Last Mile Home (2004) 71 copies, 1 review
The Opal Desert (2011) 68 copies, 4 reviews
The Last Rose of Summer (1992) 64 copies, 2 reviews
The Golden Land (2012) 60 copies, 2 reviews
The Bay (2001) 59 copies, 3 reviews
When the singing stops (1997) 51 copies
The Songmaster (1997) 45 copies, 2 reviews
The Road Back (2014) 43 copies, 2 reviews
Scatter the Stars (1998) 42 copies, 2 reviews
Arcadia (2018) 39 copies, 1 review
Follow the Morning Star (1993) 38 copies, 1 review
Blaze (2000) 38 copies
A Distant Journey (2016) 37 copies, 1 review
Rain Music (2015) 36 copies, 2 reviews
Before the Storm (2020) 35 copies, 2 reviews
The Red Coast (2017) 35 copies, 2 reviews
The Last Paradise (2019) 27 copies, 1 review
The Night Tide (2022) 17 copies
Distant Journey (2017) 5 copies
Summer of Love (1994) 3 copies
Sonoma Meets Miss Mouse (2015) 3 copies
Surfer Boy Bo (2016) 3 copies
De roep van de rode aarde (2012) 2 copies
Ula's magic island (2017) 2 copies
River Son 2 copies
Folge dem Morgenstern (2008) 1 copy
Everton and Will (2015) 1 copy

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Birthdate
1948
Gender
female
Nationality
Australia
Birthplace
Wingham, New South Wales, Australia

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A pretty typical Di Morrissey book. This told mostly in the present with just a few chapters told in the past. As is usually the case the story takes place in Australia.
You learn a little about prospectors mining opals, and get to see how three women with completely different backgrounds meet and help each other with the struggles they are going through.
 
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zmagic69 | 3 other reviews | Jan 5, 2025 |
A Di Morrissey book. Australian history and a contemporary story about 2 women finding the way and reconciling the past.
This one was good as they usually are but would have been better with a less rushed ending and 100 pages shorter.
½
 
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zmagic69 | 5 other reviews | Nov 10, 2024 |
Clearly an early book in the authors long career, the story was quite predictable, but the writing was great and it was a rather short story, for this author.
 
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zmagic69 | Aug 30, 2024 |
Most of the books by this author are story that are told in the past as well as the present. They are also epic type stories. This is about an Australian actor who goes on to make it big in Hollywood but loses everything. And hope he gets his life back.
This I think in many ways is one of the authors best and certainly most relatable books.
This really is a fantastic story.
 
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zmagic69 | 1 other review | Jul 28, 2024 |

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