Emma Ashmere's short stories have appeared in various publications including The Age, Griffith Review, Sleepers Almanac, Etchings and Australian Women's Book Review. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD from La Trobe University in Melbourne on the use of marginalised histories in fiction. She has worked as a researcher on several books on Australian gardening history, and women and empire. She lives in northern New South Wales.
"A charming and lyrical story of masculine ambition outwitted by feminine fruition. 1920s Sydney, in all her raffish grandeur, flourishes on every page." -- Mandy Sayer, author of "Love in the Years of Lunacy"
"The Floating Garden is above all a surprising love story, full of turns, transformations and slips of the heart. A wise, tender and beautifully detailed novel." -- Gail Jones, author of 'Five Bells'
"Emma Ashmere has written a compelling and lyrical novel of a rough and ready Sydney that is in the throes of rapid change; a town where the spiritual is necessary but corrupted, and where sexual lives remain hidden even from those in the grip of desire." -- Sophie Cunningham, author of 'Geography & Bird'
Emma Ashmeres subtle, wry storytelling takes the reader inside 1920s Sydney and the story of the people forgotten as one of Australias most historic events unfolds. The Floating Garden is also the story of those women who dared to want something more than society offered them. Sarah Armstrong, author of Salt Rain
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