Shortlisted, MUD Literary Club, Adelaide Writers’ Week, 2019 Longlisted, Indie Book Awards for Debut Fiction, 2019 Shortlisted, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction, 2019 Shortlisted, Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, United Kingdom, 2019 Winner, Margaret Scott Prize, Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2019
Utterly original in conception, spellbinding in its descriptions of nature and celebration of language, Flames is one of the most exciting debuts of recent years.” The answers to these riddles are to be found in this tale of grief and love and the bonds of family, tracing a journey across the southern island. A fisherman hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his sister, Charlotte-who promptly runs for her life.
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