I immediately order two novels from her back catalogue, curious I haven’t come across her work before. Set in the midst of a native title war, among Bundjalung families, it is the kind of writing that kicks you square in the guts at the same time as lifting you up and over. The book, Lucashenko’s fifth novel, is devastating, funny, political. I meet her with the yarraman, and the magpies singing and mulanyin flying around and the fairy-wrens talking a mile a minute, bossing everybody around with their little chittering instructions. I first meet Melissa Lucashenko in 2013, on the pages of her award-winning novel Mullumbimby. '2019 Prime Minister's Literary Awards shortlists announced'.

^ '2019 Queensland Literary Awards Shortlist'.

^ 'The Courier-Mail People's Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award'.

^ 'Too Much Lip by Melissa Lucashenko - Review by Karen Wyld'.

'The Book Show: Melissa Lucashenko's Too Much Lip'. 'Miles Franklin 2019 winner Melissa Lucashenko: 'We need a revolution' '.

^ a b '2019 Stella Shortlist Announced!'.

^ a b 'Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2019 shortlists announced'.Voss Literary Prize - 2019 - Shortlisted.Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing - Shortlisted.Prime Minister's Literary Awards - 2019 - Shortlisted.Queensland Literary Awards - The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award - 2019 - Shortlisted.Queensland Literary Awards - Queensland Premier's Award for a work of State Significance - 2019 - Shortlisted.Queensland Literary Awards - Courier Mail People’s Choice Award - 2019 - Shortlisted.Australian Book Industry Awards - 2019 - Longlisted.However she soon becomes embroiled in dramas with regards to her family, her local family history, and the overdevelopment of the local community, and unexpectedly finds love with a local dugai (white man ) named Steve. A fugitive with warrants out for her arrest, she does not intend to stay in town for long. Protagonist Kerry returns to her hometown of Durrongo on a stolen Harley to bid farewell to her dying grandfather.

It was the winner of the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. It was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Indigenous Writing and the Stella Award. Too Much Lip (2018) is a novel by Australian author Melissa Lucashenko.

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