Days of Innocence and Wonder

Lucy Treloar

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Macmillan
31 October 2023

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Australian Fiction

When someone is taken away, what is left behind?

All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend and her tormented wondering about whether she could have stopped it.

When Till, now twenty-three, senses danger approaching again, she flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wirowie, a town on its knees, she stops and slowly begins creating a new life and home. But there is something menacing here too. Till must decide whether she can finally face down, even pursue, the darkness - or whether she'll flee once more and never stop running.

Both a reckoning with fear and loss, and a recognition of the power of belonging, Days of Innocence and Wonder is a richly textured, deeply felt new novel from one of Australia's finest writers.

Praise for Days of Innocence and Wonder

'Not a wasted word, not an observation missed' Jock Serong

'in full possession of her powers, as assured and ambitious as Barbara Kingsolver or Isabel Allende' Australian Book Review

By: Lucy Treloar
Imprint: Macmillan
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 230mm, Width: 154mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781760982737
ISBN 10: 1760982733
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 31 October 2023
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. 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.