Lucy Treloar
Laura Elizabeth Woollett reviews ‘Days of Innocence and Wonder’ by Lucy Treloar
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
Tuesday, 19 December 2023
Through the gates of a kindergarten in Melbourne’s inner-north, a man strikes up a conversation with two little girls, which violently alters the course of their lives. The bolder of the pair, a child who ‘runs at life’, goes with him. The meeker stays behind, becoming the serial predator’s only known survivor.
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Published in
January-February 2024, no. 461
With Wolfe Island, Lucy Treloar joins a growing number of novelists whose fiction is marked by anthropogenic catastrophe. Her latest offering confronts two urgent global crises: the climate emergency, and the plight of refugees. Treloar reveals startling connections between the two through the shared thread of displacement in ...
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Published in
September 2019, no. 414