Place and Identity_Going Inland by Pat Jacobs

This novel was nominated to the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2000 and won the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Fiction Award,1998.

Jacob's novel is set in the mid-nineties. Tom and Zoe Drewe, decided to take a trip and put everything on hold, it was to be their first trip for them and like thousands of others, who were also "going around Australia". Their journey began in certainty and on their own terms, takes on its own momentum and compulsions, until they are driven as much as driving, and increasingly acted upon by the power and histories of the land whose surface they cross. This is a compelling, moving, disturbing road novel of self discovery as part of the ritual urge that some middle age took hold in the search of the meaning of place and the nature of belonging.

Jacobs, Pat. Going inland, Fremantle, W.A. : Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 2001.

Roadside sisters by Wendy Harmer

Three friends, the elegant Meredith, motherly Nina and the determinedly single Annie have been really close friends for a lifetime. Now in the perils of middle life as divorces, teenage kids, careers going nowhere and unexpected bouts of tears. One night after too many drinks they decided to take a trip in a mobile home to Byron Bay to attend one of the friends daughter’s wedding. This humorous road travel story where our heroines will encounter fights and friendship, tears and laughter along the way. This trip may tear them apart? or it might just save their lives?



Harmer, Wendy. Roadside sister's, Crows Nest, N.S.W. : Allen & Unwin, 2009.