It's the early 19th century and a small sailing ship with a cargo of convict women and their children is crossing the ocean to a penal colony. Among those trying to survive is a 15-year-old girl. After caring for her only friend who has poisoned herself, she discovers a kind of liberation within the confines of the ship, as she moves into her unknowable, distant future.
Astraea
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It's the early 19th century and a small sailing ship with a cargo of convict women and their children is crossing the ocean to a penal colony.
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A shipful of women corralled by a crew of men crosses an ocean whose swell is deeper and darker than imaginable. Is it a ghost ship?Its a haunting matter.This powerful novella, historical and immediate, atmospheric, visceral, lyrical and frank, crosses the horizon between story, history and reality.Its passengers might be in the grip of some foul brutal institutional power but their life, their vitality and their survival form the beating heart of a unique read, the language of which forms a rough fabric so tangible you can feel it on your skin.The blood heat and the cool clean soul of this tale will stay with you long after youre back on dry land.Ali Smith
A novella of clarity and strange grace, etched with a fierce and patient skill.Sebastian Barry
About
KateKruiminkis a writer from southern Lutruwita. Her first novel,A Treacherous Country,won the 2020 Australian/Vogel's Prize, was shortlisted for the 2021 Prime Minister's Award for Literature and longlisted for the 2021 Sir Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in the UK. She was one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists of 2021. Her second novel,Heartsease,will be released mid-2024 with Picador (Australia and NZ).
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Weatherglass Books
2024-08-22
Winner of Weatherglass Novella Prize 2024
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