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Wolfe Island
Wolfe Island | Lucy Treloar
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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... A richly imagined and mythic parable of home and kin that cements Lucy Treloar's place as one of our most acclaimed novelists. PRAISE FOR LUCY TRELOAR 'A capacious talent' The Australian 'Deeply moving' The Age 'This lovely, atmospheric book sings of the inherent human drama, rising fragility of home-country and the recurrent need to flee and to protect. The journey told in this book is so evocative it will stay with the reader as an important literary fable of our period of history, in which a fraught world threatens all of us with flight, exile and bewilderment.' Tom Keneally 'A work that is more than powerful: it's transformative.' Australian Book Review
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Wolfe Island | Lucy Treloar
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Just spent a week at Sandbar ⛺️. At home tonight & soaking all the grit off me in the 🛀. Do you ever go there @Freespirit ? If not, I recommend it. No mozzies or flies & close to home. We had the most perfect weather the 1st few days & then it poured. Lucky the Bookclub girls I went with also ❤️ an op shop. I got these as we went into town as a rainy day activity. It‘s a 1/2 hr drive. The op shops there have retained their low prices which I ❤️

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Just wow. A dystopian fable for our times.
For me, there were echoes of Marilynne Robinson's Lila and Emma Hooper's Our Homesick Songs.

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I have just finished Wolfe Island. I recommend it. It makes you think... about the climate crisis.....about low lying lands and the people that inhabit them....about our future...I couldn‘t finish The Road but this had a compassion and a love of family woven into a dystopian future.
Next on the reading list is Hamnet which I am looking forward to ❤️
#weeklyforecast #currentread📚

Emilymdxn I really want to read Hamnet! 5y
Cathythoughts Wolfe island sounds great! Stacked 5y
Freespirit Hi @Emilymdxn I do too...I'll let you know how it goes!! 5y
Freespirit I don't like dystopian novels @Cathythoughts but this is much more....a 4 ⭐️read for me💕 5y
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I am surprised that this will be the first review of Wolfe Island on Litsy. Its beautifully written and very atmospheric. Kitty lives on an island in Chesapeake Bay which is slowly slipping into the sea as a result of climate change..she makes art from found objects. The world is collapsing... it‘s dystopian but it‘s not hard to read!
Reading and painting is keeping me sane in this crazy world of ours.
Happy hobbies everyone😘😘

CaliforniaCay Wow those are amazing 🤩 5y
JennyM Hi Sally, hope you are well. Xx 😘 (edited) 5y
CarolynM You've convinced me🙂 Stacked. I love your paintings too! 5y
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rockpools Love everything about this post! 5y
Freespirit Thanks @CaliforniaCay I am a real novice..but I love it. Very relaxing😊 5y
Freespirit Thanks Jen @JennyM I am good. Doing lots of reading, gardening and hobbies on my days off 😊 Hope you and your family are well😘 5y
Freespirit She's a good writer @CarolynM . Have you read Salt Creek Carolyn? Hope you are well down south😘 5y
Freespirit Thanks @RachelO...it keeps me out of mischief😍 5y
erzascarletbookgasm Those paintings are so lovely! Enjoy your hobbies! 💕 5y
Cathythoughts Such lovely paintings ❤️❤️❤️ 5y
Freespirit Thank you @erzascarletbookgasm @Cathythoughts I really enjoy it💕 5y
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