The Anniversary Shortlisted For Stella Prize
4 March 2024
We’re pleased to see Stephanie Bishop’s The Anniversary has been shortlisted for the Stella Prize. The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres. Further information about the title is below.
The Anniversary by Stephanie Bishop
Published in CD and MP3 CD audiobook and uLibrary eAudiobook in June 2023.
Novelist J.B. Blackwood is on a cruise with her husband Patrick, celebrating their wedding anniversary. Her former professor, Patrick is much older than J.B. Though when they met, he seemed somehow ageless, as all new gods appear in the eyes of those who worship them. He is a film director. A cult figure. But now his success is starting to wane, and J.B. is on the cusp of winning a major literary prize. While her art has been forever overseen by him, now it may overshadow his. For days they sail in the sun. They lay about drinking, reading, sleeping, having sex. There is nothing but dark water all around them. Then a storm hits and Patrick falls off the ship. J.B. is left alone as the search for what happened to Patrick - and the truth about their marriage - begins...