Fugitive Blue

Claire Thomas

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Hachette Australia
23 February 2021

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

I am not writing this to be sentimental. I am just trying to find an answer to a story...

An artistic girl in Renaissance Venice, quietly rebelling against the constraints of her gender.

A young milordi on a European Grand Tour, recognising the world and his secret sexuality.

A ballerina in nineteenth-century Paris, choosing between suitors.

A Greek mother, beginning a new life with her family in a migrant reception centre in regional Australia.

And, finally, a paintings conservator in contemporary Melbourne, breaking her own heart.

A single, small artwork - subversive, hidden, and oddly blue - somehow survives for five hundred years, linking the lives of these characters.

An intricate tale of grief and discovery, of watery destruction and earthly love.

By: Claire Thomas
Imprint: Hachette Australia
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 128mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 180g
ISBN: 9780733645341
ISBN 10: 0733645348
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 23 February 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Claire Thomas is a Melbourne writer. Her acclaimed first novel was Fugitive Blue, which won the Dobbie Award for women writers, and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. Claire holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne where she taught literary studies and creative writing for many years.

Reviews for Fugitive Blue

a multi-layered story of love lost, past and present, and the endurance of art - Books + Publishing Beautifully done with great imagination - Sydney Morning Herald Readers who loved Tracy Chevalier's Girl with a Pearl Earring will also be captivated by this novel - Sunday Tasmanian