Lucy Neave completed a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing in the US on a Fulbright scholarship, and has received a Varuna New Writers' Fellowship and Australian Society of Authors Mentorship. Her fiction has appeared in Australian and American literary journals, including Southerly, Overland and Lost Magazine, and in Best Australian Stories 2009. She teaches Creative Writing at the Australian National University.
'A love story turns into a Cold War thriller: a beautifully, tautly written novel...I could not put it down.' -- Joan London 'Who We Were is a tale told simply with great poise and assurance. Neave has a strong narrative sense and a gift for the evocation of time and place.' Weekend Australian 'A tense and cooly assured debut novel.' Adelaide Advertiser 'A very restrained sort of thriller...A dark, sad tale about taking risks, making allowances and justifying the unjustifiable...Well-written, the prose is gentle, almost dream-like in tone.' NZ Weekend Herald 'Neave's elegant, assured prose turns a run-of-the-mill love story into an intense and intriguing narrative that builds into a Cold War thriller...This is a first-class debut novel that crosses the literary and commercial divide.' Herald Sun 'Neave has written a powerful novel set in an intriguing time, with interesting Melbourne and New York-and a mysterious twist in the tale-woven in for good measure.' Melbourne Weekly Times