Lucy Treloar

WINNER OF THE BARBARA JEFFERIS AWARD 2024 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW LITERARY AWARDS CHRISTINA STEAD PRIZE FOR FICTION 2025 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...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN AWARD 2016 LONGLISTED FOR THE 2017 INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD WINNER OF THE 2016 INDIE BOOK AWARD FOR DEBUT FICTION From the winner of the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize (Pacific Region) and the 2013 Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award "Salt Creek introduces a capacious talent" The Australian Some things collapse slow, and cannot always...

My father always said with a name like Kitty Hawke I'd surely fly away. He said my mother should have thought of that before she named me. It was the way on the island, time out of mind . . . Times have changed. Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has...