Wolfe Island

by Lucy Treloar

Overview

WINNER OF THE BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD 2020

'Atmospheric...evocative...important.' Tom Keneally

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 granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, 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 avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following her granddaughter, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will fight to save her as fiercely as her name suggests...

A richly imagined and mythic parable of home and kin that cements Lucy Treloar's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION 2020
SHORTLISTED FOR ABIA LITERARY FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
LONGLISTED FOR THE VOSS LITERARY AWARD 2020

PRAISE FOR LUCY TRELOAR

'A capacious talent' The Australian

'Deeply moving' The Age

'This lovely, atmospheric book sings of the inherent human drama, rising fragility of home-country and the recurrent need to flee and to protect. The journey told in this book is so evocative it will stay with the reader as an important literary fable of our period of history, in which a fraught world threatens all of us with flight, exile and bewilderment.' Tom Keneally, bestselling author of Schindler's Ark

'A work that is more than powerful: it's transformative.' Australian Book Review

'Disturbing but beautiful' Susan Wyndham

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781760787905
Publisher:	Pan Macmillan Australia
Publication date:	08/27/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	300
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

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 is currently writing her third novel.

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.


Winner of the Indie Award Best Debut Fiction, 2016
Short-listed for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, 2016
Winner of the ABIA Matt Richell Award for New Writer, 2016
Short-listed for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2016
Short-listed for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, 2016
Winner of the Dobbie Literary Award, 2016
Winner of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region), 2014
Winner of the Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award, 2013
Asialink Writers Residency, 2011

Editorial Reviews

The controlled voice and convincing accent of narrator Abbe Holmes immerse listeners in the precarious existence of a woman who lives alone on a sinking island in Chesapeake Bay in a dismal but all too plausible future. Kitty’s life is disturbed not only by rising waters but also by the arrival of her granddaughter and her Hispanic companions who need a sanctuary. In this dystopian novel, refugees are fair game for militia groups who enjoy attacking those who are “different.” The writing is poetic, atmospheric, and at times gripping. Holmes ensures that every listener hears the lapping of the water, the echoes of gunshots, and the cries of a terrified child. They all make one feel a part of this believable new world. D.L.G. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

NOVEMBER 2020 - AudioFile