ABR Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize
Patterns in Nature
Winner of the 2012 Jolley Prize
by Sue Hurley •
In 1979 in the town of Paradise Lake, women of fifty favour blue knitwear and Peter Jackson cigarettes. They cook sponges without a recipe, don’t mind a brandy and dry, and love their grandchildren with an intensity that takes some of them by surprise. They’re most readily distinguished, one from another, according to their golf handicaps and the generosity of their judgements.
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