Tell Morning This

by Kylie Tennant

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446 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1967

About the author

Kylie Tennant was born in Manly, NSW, in 1912. In 1932, she married Lewis Charles Rodd. Her first novel, Tiburon, won the S. H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1935. and further novels saw her develop her social-realist style. However, her work is much more complex than suggested by the term social realism, although she conducted first-hand research to give her novels authenticity, once even spending a week in gaol. Her best known novel is The Battlers (1941) which won the S.H. Prior Memorial Prize in 1940 and the Australian Literature Society Gold Medal in 1941. Other of her works embrace travel, biography, work for children and dramatic works. In 1980 Kylie Tennant was made AO. She died in 1988.
Awards

1935: S. H. Prior Memorial Prize awarded by The Bulletin magazine, for Tiburon[5]
1940: S. H. Prior Memorial Prize (run by the Bulletin), for The Battlers, shared with Eve Langley, The Pea-Pickers, and Malcolm Henry Ellis's "John Murtagh Macrossan lectures".
1942: Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The Battlers
1960: Children’s Book Council Book Award for All the Proud Tribesmen
1980: Officer of the Order of Australia for services to literature[6]

Reviews

[Glenn Blake · Rating 3 out of 5]

(3.5) - Tell Morning This covers the theme of imprisonment and analyses and exposes the child protection services in New South Wales. It is written with compassion to the plight of the poor and the lower working class, while at the same time not necessarily portraying them in a golden light, but with deficiencies that could be seen as byproducts of the social conditions in the 1940's around Darlinghurst and Surry Hills, Sydney