Gender:
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Most Referenced Works
Personal Awards
Awards for Works
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The Octopus and I
Crows Nest
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Allen and Unwin
,
2020
18507439
2020
single work
novel
'Lucy and Jem live on the Tasman Peninsula near Eaglehawk Neck, where Lucy is recovering from major surgery. As she tries to navigate her new body through the world, she develops a deep fascination with the local octopuses, and in doing so finds herself drawn towards the friendship of an old woman and her son. As the story unfolds, the octopuses come to shape Lucy's body and her sense of self in ways even she can't quite understand.
'The Octopus and I is a stunning debut novel that explores the wild, beating heart at the intersection of human and animal, love and loss, fear and hope.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2022 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes Tasmanian Literary Awards — Premier's Prize for Fiction
- 2021 longlisted Voss Literary Prize
- 2021 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing
- 2021 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Literary Fiction / Poetry Cover designed by Alissa Dinallo
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