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Lucy Treloar Lucy Treloar i(A137883 works by)
Also writes as: Rosie MacDonald
Born: Established:
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Malaysia,
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Southeast Asia, South and East Asia, Asia,
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Gender: Female
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1 2 y separately published work icon Days of Innocence and Wonder Lucy Treloar , Sydney : Picador , 2023 26827740 2023 single work novel

'When someone is taken away, what is left behind?

'All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend and her tormented wondering about whether she could have stopped it.

'When Till, now twenty-three, senses danger approaching again, she flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wirowie, a town on its knees, she stops and slowly begins creating a new life and home. But there is something menacing here too. Till must decide whether she can finally face down, even pursue, the darkness - or whether she'll flee once more and never stop running.

'Both a reckoning with fear and loss, and a recognition of the power of belonging, Days of Innocence and Wonder is a richly textured, deeply felt new novel from one of Australia's finest writers.' (Publication summary) 

1 Writing the Apocalypse Lucy Treloar , 2020 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , June vol. 79 no. 2 2020; (p. 26-36)
‘' It’s like the apocalypse out there.’ How many times I heard it said in the summer, in the bushfire season. The exclamatory tone of the early months made way for weariness in January, and desperate humour by early autumn as floods, brown rain, the COVID-19 virus and the great toilet paper crisis of the first weeks of March replaced drought and fire.' (Introduction)
1 Australia in Three Books Lucy Treloar , 2019 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin , Spring vol. 78 no. 3 2019; (p. 15-19)

— Review of Midnite : The Story of a Wild Colonial Boy Randolph Stow , 1967 single work children's fiction ; Oscar and Lucinda Peter Carey , 1988 single work novel ; Questions of Travel Michelle De Kretser , 2012 single work novel

'Our lives are made up of different arcs—love, family, politics, geography, time and dislocation among them. One of the arcs that has exercised me most is my wondering about post-colonising Australia and its myths and mythmaking propensities, also about my family’s.

'Although my childhood was spent mostly in Melbourne, it was punctuated by our frequent pilgrimages to the promised land (aka South Australia) and inflected by the awareness that Melbourne was exile to my South Australian mother—feelings I do not share. She often reminded us of our ‘free settler’ heritage, and of our roots in the colonial era, no more than a blink of time ago in the face of 50,000 or more years of Aboriginal occupation; my horror has only grown with the intervening years.

'We loved South Australia for our own reasons: for heat, our peerless great-grandmother, wild freedom and the beach. But an awareness of myth, of the stories we tell and the ways we frame present and past, was kindled. If there is an arc in this selection, it is that the postcolonial Australia that I first began to think about as a child—if only at the edges of my mind—is a myth. It always has been.' (Introduction)

1 4 y separately published work icon Wolfe Island Lucy Treloar , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2019 17117918 2019 single work novel

'Kitty Hawke, the last inhabitant of a dying island sinking into the wind-lashed Chesapeake Bay, has resigned herself to annihilation...

'Until one night her granddaughter blows ashore in the midst of a storm, 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 avoiding its worst excesses. But blood cannot be turned away in times like these. And when trouble comes following her granddaughter, no one is more surprised than Kitty to find she will fight to save her as fiercely as her name suggests...'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 In Defence of Historical Fiction Lucy Treloar , 2018 single work essay
— Appears in: Meanjin Online 2018;
1 The Last Word Stephanie Honor Convery , Alison Croggon , Sally J. Finn , Morgan Godfrey , Rachel Hennessy , Brendan Keogh , Benjamin Laird , Lucy Treloar , Stephen Wright , Jacinda Woodhead , 2015 single work column
— Appears in: Overland [Online] , October 2015;
'Burning thoughts on books, music, articles, TV shows, films, and other cultural ephemera from Overland’s writers and editors.' (Publication summary)
2 22 y separately published work icon Salt Creek Lucy Treloar , Sydney : Pan Macmillan Australia , 2015 8775071 2015 single work novel historical fiction

'Salt Creek is set in the Coorong in the 1850s: a remote, beautiful and inhospitable coastal region in the new province of South Australia, which has been opened to graziers willing to chance their luck. Among them are Stanton Finch and his family, including sixteen-year-old Hester Finch.

'Once wealthy political activists, the Finch family has fallen on hard times. Cut adrift from the polite society they were raised to be part of, Hester and her siblings make connections where they can: with the travellers passing along the nearby stock route - among them a young artist, Charles - and the Ngarrindjeri people they have dispossessed. Hester witnesses the destruction of their subtle culture and begins to wonder what civilization is. Was it for this life and this world that she was educated?'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

1 In The Park Lucy Treloar , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Seizure [Online] , January 2013;
1 Natural Selection Lucy Treloar , 2013 single work short story
— Appears in: Overland , Spring no. 212 2013; (p. 78-85)
1 1 y separately published work icon The Things We Tell Ourselves Lucy Treloar , 2012 (Manuscript version)17117901 Z1938736 2012 single work novel
1 Wrecking Ball Lucy Treloar , 2012 single work short story
— Appears in: The Sleepers Almanac No. 8 2012; (p. 159) The Best Australian Stories 2013 2013; (p. 197-209)
1 The Write Space Lucy Treloar , 2009 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 28 January 2009; (p. 15)
1 Holding Tight to Mother's Hand Lucy Treloar , 2007 single work prose
— Appears in: The Age , 15 October 2007; (p. 15)
1 y separately published work icon Surviving Choir Rosie MacDonald , Southbank : Cengage Learning , 2004 6123698 2004 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Circus 298 Rosie MacDonald , Southbank : Cengage Learning , 2004 6123709 2004 single work children's fiction children's
1 y separately published work icon Not Nits Lucy Treloar , Mascot : Koala Books , 2003 6122357 2003 single work children's fiction children's

'No one loves insects more than Gus, not even his best friends Jake and Mustapha. So when Gus gets nits he refuses to get rid of them. But Gus meets his match in his mother. She won't let him out unless he wears a showercap (pink!) and so he has to give in! If he doesn't the other insects that live in his bedroom will die! (No one else will catch the food for them!)' (Publication summary)

 

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