Wolfe Island
$23.90
- Paperback
400 pages
- Release Date
26 September 2023
Summary
My father always said with a name like Kitty Hawke I’d surely fly away. He said my mother should have thought of that before she named me. It was the way on the island, time out of mind… Times have changed.
Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation, until one night her pregnant granddaughter rows ashore, desperate, begging for sanctuary.
For years, Kitty has kept herself to herself, with…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760986124 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1760986127 |
| Author: | Lucy Treloar |
| Publisher: | Pan Macmillan Australia |
| Imprint: | Picador Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 400 |
| Release Date: | 26 September 2023 |
| Weight: | 310g |
| Dimensions: | 201mm x 133mm x 30mm |
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About The Author
Lucy Treloar
Lucy Treloar was born in Malaysia and educated in England, Sweden and Melbourne. Her novel Salt Creek (2015) won the Dobbie Literary Award among others, and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UK’s Walter Scott Prize. Wolfe Island (2019), her second novel, won the Barbara Jefferis Award and was shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s and NSW literary awards. She is a previous winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific region). Lucy’s essays and short fiction have appeared in publications including The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, The Age, Overland, Best Australian Stories and Foundational Fictions in South Australian History. A graduate of the University of Melbourne and RMIT, Lucy lives in inner Melbourne with her family, and her third novel, Days of Innocence and Wonder, will be released by Picador in November 2023.
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