2026 Miles Franklin Literary Award Listed

You Must Remember This

Longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2026

By: Sean Wilson

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Hardcover | 28 January 2025

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Grace can't settle. She can't shake the feeling that someone is missing.

You Must Remember This is an eloquent jumble of a family story, as experienced by Grace, an elderly woman with dementia trying to get her moorings in a worsening storm. It contemplates the perils of remembering and forgetting, making your own way in the world and how we seem bound to repeat the patterns of the past. Most profoundly it's about sensing what it's like to live on while your faculties dim, and about finding peace.

About the Author

Sean Wilson is a writer from Perth, Western Australia. His short stories have been published in Australian and international journals, anthologies and literary magazines including Island and Narrative, and he was previously shortlisted for the Patrick White Playwrights Award by Sydney Theatre Company. He now lives in Melbourne. His debut novel, Gemini Falls, was published in 2022. This is his second book.

Industry Reviews

'A tender portrait of old age and the slippages of memory.' Amanda Lohrey

'Lyrical and beautifully conceived. A sensitive and heartbreaking insight into the devastating impact of dementia on the sufferers and those who care for them.' Michael Brissenden

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