Magdalena Ball

Magdalena Ball is author of The Art of Assessment and Quark Soup. She runs the popular Compulsive Reader website at www.compulsivereader.com. Her short stories, editorials, poetry, reviews and articles have appeared in many printed anthologies and journals and have won several awards. Sleep Before Evening is her debut novel.

Visit Magdalena's website: www.compulsivereader.com

Article in The Herald here	(11/01/08)
Sleep Before Evening media room	(02/11/07)
Reading Group notes for Sleep Before Evening - pdf download	(02/11/07)
Magdalena's INside Authors interview	(22/10/07)
Ernest Dempsey at News Blaze interviews Magdalena Ball	(18/10/07)
Lake Macquaire News article	(30/08/07)
Lake Macquaire News Scanned version	(04/09/07)
The Australian book launch photographs	(30/08/07)
The Pleasures of Getting Lost - An interview with Magdalena Ball, author of Sleep Before Evening	(27/08/07)
Magdalena Ball interviewed by All Fiction Books	(24/08/07)
Aussie Authors interview with Magdalena	(24/07/07)
Magdalena's online radio show Cookies need to be allowed to visit the site	(24/07/07)
Information about Magdalena's book tour	(24/07/07)

Sleep Before Evening by Magdalena Ball

Marianne is teetering at the edge of reason.

A death in the family sends her brilliant academic career and promising future spiraling out of control until resentment towards those who shaped her past leads her on a wild and desperate search for the truth about herself.

On the seedy side of New York, she meets Miles, a hip musician busking the streets and playing low-rent venues in a muddled bid to make his own dreams come true.

In her new life, she finds anarchic squalor, home grown music and poetry, booze, drugs, sex, violence, love, loss … and, above all, exhilarating freedom on her troubled journey from sleep to awakening.

This gritty, relentless story unfolds with the same cool detachment that motivates the central character to peel back the layers of her life and expose the painful scalding within.

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ISBN: 978-1-904492-96-2