Summary
An unexpected new novel about truth, doubt and alien abduction, by the Miles Franklin Award-winning author of The Labyrinth.
James Mather is a psychiatrist in his sixties. He is invited to take on a new group of patients. All he knows about them is that each one claims to have been abducted by aliens. His wife, Deborah, is sceptical, but he gets going anyway. His patients tell mesmerising stories. There’s Anthony, for instance, who was camping one night by the Aral Sea; or Mary, the o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923058842 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1923058843 |
| Author: | Amanda Lohrey |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 28 April 2026 |
| Weight: | 300g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 233mm x 155mm |
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‘A deft and poetic writer.’ * Guardian *‘Lohrey’s body of fiction always has philosophical foundations for its warmly human stories.’ * Age *‘Lohrey is a beautiful writer.’ * Australian *‘[Lohrey’s] storytelling is masterful: honed to pleasing plainness and assured in its measured tempo, her novels would take multiple readings to unpick her craft, which is deft to the point of invisibility at times.’ * Mercury *
‘[Lohrey’s] writing is the literature of ideas…elegant and transfixing.’
* Australian on The Labyrinth *‘Lohrey makes writing look effortless: every sentence is a pleasure to read. Her characters immediately come alive on the page.’
* Saturday Paper on The Conversion *About The Author
Amanda Lohrey
Amanda Lohrey lives in Tasmania and writes fiction and non-fiction. She has taught at the University of Tasmania, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland. Amanda is a regular contributor to the Monthly magazine and a former senior fellow of the Australia Council’s Literature Board. She received the 2012 Patrick White Award. The Labyrinth (2021), her eighth work of fiction, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a Prime Minister’s Literary Award, a Tasmanian Literary Award and the Voss Literary Prize.
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