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Publisher details
- Author
- Emily Bitto
- Publisher
- Affirm Press
- Genres
- Debut, Fiction
- Released
- 01 May, 2014
- ISBN
- 9781922213211
The Strays
Synopsis
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it.As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect the same themes as their art: Faustian bargains and spectacular falls from grace. Yet it’s not Evan, but his own daughters, who pay the price for his radicalism.
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