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Charlotte McConaghy Charlotte McConaghy i(A125605 works by)
Gender: Female
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'[Charlotte] McConaghy has been writing from a young age, and has written several novels including the science-fiction series The Cure and the romantic fantasy series The Chronicles of Kaya. She studied a Masters of Screenwriting at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School, and is the author of the Australian Writer's Guild award-winning screenplay Fury – adapted from her novel of the same name. She lives in London (2017), writing novels and working on both film and television projects.' (Source : Penguin website)

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y separately published work icon Once There Were Wolves Melbourne : Hamish Hamilton , 2021 22563038 2021 single work novel

'Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but a broken Aggie, too. However, Inti is not the woman she once was, and may be in need of rewilding herself. 

'Despite fierce opposition from the locals, Inti’s wolves surprise everyone by thriving, and she begins to let her guard down, even opening up to the possibility of love. But when a local farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, she makes a reckless decision to protect them, testing every instinct she has. 

'But if her wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did? And what will she do when the man she’s been seeing becomes the main suspect?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

2022 longlisted Davitt Award Best Debut
2022 winner Davitt Award Best Adult Crime Novel
2022 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2022 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2022 winner Indie Awards Fiction
y separately published work icon The Last Migration Camberwell : Hamish Hamilton , 2020 19144448 2020 single work novel

'For readers of Station Eleven and Everything I Never Told You, a debut novel set on the brink of catastrophe, as a young woman chases the world’s last birds – and her own final chance for redemption.

'A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive.

'How far you would you go for love? Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica.

'As animal populations plummet and commercial fishing faces prohibition, Franny talks her way onto one of the few remaining boats heading south. But as she and the eccentric crew travel further from shore and safety, the dark secrets of Franny’s life begin to unspool. A daughter’s yearning search for her mother. An impulsive, passionate marriage. A shocking crime. Haunted by love and violence, Franny must confront what she is really running towards – and from.

'The Last Migration is a wild, gripping and deeply moving novel from a brilliant young writer. From the west coast of Ireland to Australia and remote Greenland, through crashing Atlantic swells to the bottom of the world, this is an ode to the wild places and creatures now threatened, and an epic story of the possibility of hope against all odds.'

Source: Publisher's blurb

2022 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2021 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards Fiction Book Award
2021 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian Literary Fiction Book of the Year
2021 longlisted Indie Awards Fiction
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