The One Remaining

Paula McLean

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FEARLESS PRESS
01 October 2025

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

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Hilary Mason is thirteen when her sister Elaine disappears. She fears someone close to the family is involved but represses her suspicions.

As an adult, Hilary becomes a successful novelist. In her fifties, she comes upon a stack of her old diaries, which document the trauma she's endured. She decides she is ready to face the hidden backstory of her life.

She embarks on writing a memoir, Hilary's Story, which will take her through her worst years and her best years, through courage and endurance, through friendship and great love.

The One Remaining is a captivating story of overcoming loss, finding the courage to trust those who believe in us, and the self-healing power of writing our stories.

'The One Remaining is a wise, beautiful and moving novel about the whole of a woman's life. I lived with the main character Hilary through her griefs, suffering and great joys. I cried as I read, then I wiped my eyes and smiled. McLean shows us how surviving loss and trauma is not linear or clear, but gives a depth and richness to life nonetheless.'

Sophie Gee, The Secret Life of Books podcast

By: Paula McLean
Imprint: FEARLESS PRESS
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm,
Weight: 450g
ISBN: 9780646718279
ISBN 10: 0646718274
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 01 October 2025
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Paula McLean is the immediate past Deputy Chair and Patron of the Stella Prize, and now a NSW Ambassador. She is on the board of the Country Education Foundation, a member of the She Gives Advisory Group and a trustee of McLean Foundation, which supports conservation, education, domestic violence and literature. She began the Nature Writing Prize, administered by The Nature Conservancy Australia. A former fiction and educational publishing editor, Paula is also the author of Good Foods for Babies and Toddlers.