Patrick Holland grew up in outback Queensland, where he worked as a horseman, before moving to Brisbane. His is the author of the travel book, Riding the Trains in Japan and the novels: The Long Road of the Junkmailer, which won the Queensland Premier’s Award for Best Emerging Author and was short-listed for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, Best First Book, The Mary Smokes Boys, which was long-listed for the Miles Franklin Award and shortlisted for the AgeBook of the Year, and One.
“Beautiful and bittersweet.”