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Wolfe Island

By Lucy Treloar
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Wolfe Island tells the story of Kitty Hawke, the last resident of a fading island in the Chesapeake Bay. Isolated and resigned to solitude, Kitty's life changes when her pregnant granddaughter arrives, seeking refuge. With the companionship of her wolfdog, Girl, Kitty faces the challenges of protecting her family and confronting the harsh realities of a world beyond the island.
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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.

Wolfe Island centres around Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay. She has resigned herself to annihilation until one night her pregnant granddaughter rows ashore, 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 merely avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following the children, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will protect them as fiercely as her name suggests...

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ISBN: 9781760986124

Publisher: Pan Macmillan Australia

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 September 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Picador Australia

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 133.0mm

Height: 201.0mm

Weight: 310g

Pages: 400

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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 her third novel, Days of Innocence and Wonder, will be released by Picador in November 2023.

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