Black Mirror (novel)


Black Mirror is a novel by Australian author Gail Jones. It won the Fiction category of the Western Australian Premier's Book Awards in 2002 and the Nita Kibble Literary Award in 2003.

Plot summary

A biographer, Anna Griffin, is interviewing Victoria Morrell about her childhood in a gold-mining town in Western Australia and her subsequent flight to Paris in the 1930s, as a young artist. There Victoria found herself caught up in a surrealist circle of painters and writers. As the interview progresses Anna comes to examine her own childhood in the same town some 60 years later.

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