Pobby and Dingan
First UK edition
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| Author | Ben Rice |
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| Cover artist | Rob Clifford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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Jonathan Cape (UK) Knopf (US) |
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Publication date
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2000 |
| Pages | 96 |
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Pobby and Dingan is a novella by English author Ben Rice, which first appeared in issue 70 of Granta in Summer 2000 and published in book form later that year. It was joint winner of the 2001 Somerset Maugham Award and shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It has been made into the 2006 film Opal Dream and a 2010 play for children by Catherine Wheels Theatre Company.
Set in the opal mining community of Lightning Ridge in New South Wales it tells of the eponymous Pobby and Dingan, imaginary friends of Kellyanne Williamson, sister of Ashmol and daughter of an opal miner. One day Pobby and Dingan 'disappear' leaving Kellyanne bereft. At first Ashmol tells Kellyanne to just snap out of it but as her condition deteriorates and she stops eating, Ashmol resolves to find her lost friends...
For more details of the plot please see the Opal Dream article.
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