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Wolfe Island

Lucy Treloar

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English
Picador
03 October 2023
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 only the company of her wolfdog, Girl; unconcerned by the world outside, or perhaps merely avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following the children, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will protect them as fiercely as her name suggests...

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Imprint:   Picador
Country of Publication:   Australia
Dimensions:   Height: 199mm,  Width: 132mm,  Spine: 30mm
Weight:   306g
ISBN:   9781760986124
ISBN 10:   1760986127
Pages:   400
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

  • Short-listed for ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year 2020 (Australia)
  • Short-listed for NSW Premier's Literary Award Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 2020
  • Short-listed for Prime Minister's Literary Awards Fiction 2020 (Australia)
  • Winner of Barbara Jefferis Award 2020

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