num_pages: 464
description: Who is Iris Webber?A thief a fighter a wife a lover.A scammer a schemer a friend.A musician a worker a big-hearted fool.A woman who has prevailed against the toughest gangsters of the day defying police time and again yet is now trapped in a prison cell.Guilty or innocent?Rollicking through the underbelly of 1930s sly-grog Sydney Iris is a dazzling literary achievement from one of Australia's finest writers. Based on actual events and set in an era of cataclysmic change here is a fierce fascinating tale of a woman who couldn't be held back.SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTIONLONGLISTED FOR THE STELLA PRIZE 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE ABDA BOOK DESIGN AWARDS 2023 BEST DESIGNED LITERARY FICTION COVERPraise for Iris'The story of Iris had to be told and Fiona Kelly McGregor has produced the roughest but most invaluable diamond.' - Tony Birch'There's a magical conjuring up here a dream-building of people place and things. Iris is to me not just a great urban novel but maybe the best Australian city novel ever.' - Peter Doyle'Visceral and immediate and relevant. It's a stunner.' - Hannah Kent'A vivid arresting voice ... Utterly gripping. Love it.' - Lucy Treloar'A brawling picaresque book by one of our foremost cartographers of settler Sydney.' - Declan Fry The Sydney Morning Herald'Vivid and panoramic.' - The Times / The Conversation'Intimate and exuberant.' - Gemma Nisbet The West Australian'Exceptional ... This book had me in its clutches for an unusually long time. I didn't want to let it - or Iris - go.' - Alison Huber Readings Bookshop'An exhilarating squeezebox of a novel.' - Felicity Plunkett The Australian Book Review
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title: Iris
publisher: Picador Australia