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ABBEY’S BOOKSELLER PICK —— A brilliant debut and a poignant story of a family haunted by a dark legacy. Gavin Sladen
WINNER OF THE AUSTRALIAN/VOGEL LITERARY AWARD 2018
Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely property bordering an abandoned cattle farm and knackery. Their lives are shadowed by the infamous actions of her Granddad Les in his yellow weatherboard house, just over the fence.
Although Les died twelve years ago, his notoriety has grown in Cub's lifetime and the local community have ostracised the whole family.
When Cub's estranged aunt Helena and cousin Tilly move next door into the yellow house, the secrets the family want to keep buried begin to bubble to the surface. And having been kept in the dark about her grandfather's crimes, Cub is now forced to come to terms with her family's murky history.
The Yellow House is a powerful novel about loyalty and betrayal; about the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption.
About the Winner of The Australian/Vogel Literary Award 2018
Emily O'Grady was born in 1991 in Brisbane. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in, or are forthcoming in Review of Australian Fiction, Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue Fiction Edition and Award Winning Australian Writing. In 2012 she won the QUT Undergraduate Writing Prize, and in 2013 she won the QUT Postgraduate Writing Prize. In 2017 she placed second in the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Queensland Premiers Young Publishers and Writers Award, and was longlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Prize for Fiction. She co-edits Stilts Journal, and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Queensland University of Technology, where she also works as a Sessional Academic.
Emily O'Grady was born in Brisbane. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue Fiction Edition and Award Winning Australian Writing. In 2012 she won the QUT Undergraduate Writing Prize, and in 2013 she won the QUT Postgraduate Writing Prize. In 2017 she placed second in the Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction, was shortlisted for the Queensland Premiers Young Publishers and Writers Award, and was longlisted for the Elizabeth Jolley Prize for Fiction. She co-edits Stilts Journal, and is currently completing a PhD in Creative Writing at Queensland University of Technology, where she also works as a Sessional Academic.
ABBEY’S BOOKSELLER PICK —— A brilliant debut and a poignant story of a family haunted by a dark legacy. Gavin Sladen
'A spine-chilling & tightly woven story of the repercussions of horrific crimes & the way they can come to define a family and a town' - Ali Hammond, Dymocks 'Hearty congratulations to Emily O'Grady on being this year's Vogel Prize winner. Such an achievement. Emily's prose is sure and light as she delivers this compelling story about the fabulous character, Cub, and the confounding world she has been born into. A semi-rural setting, our endless fascination with the different faces of family dysfunction, a writing style that is full of light and shadow and grace, this story will be sure to leave the readers heart in their mouth.' - Suzy Wilson, Riverbend Books 'I so enjoyed reading this novel which kept me enthralled to the end. It is a taut and gripping story with emotional tension rippling through every page.' - Jenny Barry, Books Plus
