Rhett Davis Rhett Davis i(A140597 works by) (a.k.a. Rhett Davies )
Gender: Male
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Rhett Davis has lived and worked in Geelong: he holds an MFA from the University of British Columbia and in 2019 was completing a PhD at Deakin University in Geelong. His work has been published in a range of periodicals in Australia and North America, including The Dalhousie ReviewThe Sleepers Almanac, The Big Issue, Verandah and Page Seventeen.  

In 2020, Davis' manuscript 'Hovering' won the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Unpublished Manuscript.

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y separately published work icon Hovering Sydney : Hachette Australia , 2022 23590771 2022 single work novel

'The city was in the same place. But was it the same city?

'Alice stands outside her family's 1950s red brick veneer, unsure if she should approach. It has been sixteen years, but it's clear she is out of options.

'Lydia opens the door to a familiar stranger - thirty-nine, tall, bony, pale. She knows her sister immediately. But something isn't right. Meanwhile her son, George, is upstairs, still refusing to speak, and lost in a virtual world of his own design.

'Nothing is as it was, and while the sisters' resentments flare, it seems that the city too is agitated. People wake up to streets that have rearranged themselves, in houses that have moved to different parts of town. Tensions rise and the authorities have no answers. The internet becomes alight with conspiracy theories.

'As the world lurches around them, Alice's secret will be revealed, and the ground at their feet will no longer be so firm.' (Publication summary) 

2022 shortlisted Aurealis Awards for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Division Novel
2022 shortlisted Readings Prizes Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
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