Ep 261: Lucy Treloar on writing about the hard things well

The Garret: Writers on writing by Astrid Edwards

Dec 18, 202323:37Arts

Lucy Treloar is a novelist. Her debut, Salt Creek , won the Dobbie Literary Award among others and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the UK's Walter Scott Prize. Wolfe Island , her second novel, w...

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