Nest
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Once an artist and school teacher, Jen now leads a solitary life. She has retreated to the lush Queensland hinterland, near the small town where she grew up, seeking solace in nature. She spends her days observing birds, tending her sub-tropical bush block, and slowly working her way back into her drawing. The only person she sees regularly is Henry, a child she tutors in art.
Then a girl in Henry's class goes missing, and Jen is pulled back into the depths of her own past. When she was Henry's age, her father and her friend Michael also went missing in the same week. The whole town talked about it then, and now, nearly forty years later, they're talking about it again. As hopes fade of finding the missing girl alive, and the summer rain fails to arrive, there is a sense that everyone is waiting. When the answers do come, like the wet, it is in a drenching all-encompassing downpour. Just as the hinterland will eventually deliver up its lost children, it can also free the lost child in us all.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9780733632341
- Author: Inga Simpson
- Pub date: 28.12.15
- RRP: $29.99
- Format: Paperback / softback
Author
Inga Simpson
Inga Simpson began her career as a professional writer for government before gaining a PhD in creative writing. In 2011, she took part in the Queensland Writers Centre Manuscript Development Program and, as a result, Hachette Australia published her first novel, Mr Wigg, in 2013. Nest, Inga's second novel, was published in 2014 and was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the Stella Prize and shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal. Inga's third novel, the acclaimed Where the Trees Were, was published in 2016.
Inga was awarded the final Eric Rolls Prize for her nature writing and has obtained a second PhD, exploring the history of Australian nature writers. Inga's account of her love of Australian nature and life with trees, Understory, was published in 2017. Her first book for children, The Book of Australian Trees, illustrated by Alicia Rogerson, was published in 2021. The Last Woman in the World, her critically acclaimed environmental thriller, was published in 2021 and shortlisted for the 2022 Fiction Indie Book Award. Her bestselling and critically acclaimed 2022 novel Willowman was shortlisted for the BookPeople Adult Fiction Book of the Year 2023 and in 2024 was selected by Australia's leading booksellers in BookPeople's 100 Must-Read Australian Novels.Inga lives on the New South Wales south coast among trees.Other books by the author
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