Gail Jones writes literary fiction concerned with memory, art, language and the way historical events enter private lives. Sixty Lights follows Lucy Strange from Victorian Australia to London and India, using photography as both subject and organising image, while Dreams of Speaking centres on a young Australian researcher fascinated by modern technology and her friendship with an older Japanese man in Paris. Sorry returns to wartime Western Australia through a child, her troubled parents and an Aboriginal girl whose life becomes entangled with the family. Jones's prose is reflective and image-rich, with disrupted chronology and recurring motifs more important than fast plot. Her work fits Australian literary fiction, historical fiction and novels about art, memory and displacement. Read more Less
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