''The Grisly Wife'' is a 1993

Miles Franklin literary award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

-winning novel by the Australian author Rodney Hall. The Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report called it "a novel with a rather surprising vision."Miles Franklin Award Judges' Report
/ref> This novel is the third book in The Yandilli Trilogy (also referred to as ''A Dream More Luminous Than Love''), following the novels ''Captivity Captive'' in 1988, and ''The Second Bridgeroom'' in 1991.

Awards

*Miles Franklin Literary Award, 1994: winner *NBC Banjo Awards, NBC Banjo Award for Fiction, 1994: shortlisted

References

1993 Australian novels Miles Franklin Award-winning works {{1990s-novel-stub