![]() ![]() ![]() As we follow the child’s eye recollections of Lily and her time spent with the Trentham family during the 1930’s, Bitto deftly layers each by careful pacing and her own direct and personal style, Review: Emily Bitto’s debut novel The Strays is an exploration of relationships perspective and memory isolation and belonging separateness and community. Yet it was not Evan, nor the other artists he gathered around him, but his own daughters, who paid the debt that was owing. Looking back on those years later in life, Lily realises that this utopian circle involved the same themes as Evan Trentham’s art: Faustian bargains and terrible recompense spectacular fortunes and falls from grace. As Lily’s friendship with Eva grows, she becomes infatuated with this makeshift family and longs to truly be a part of it. He and his wife are attempting to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work with them at their family home. Summary: On her first day at a new school, Lily meets Eva, one of the daughters of the infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. Review by Angela Long for Welcome to my Library Follow Angela on Twitter as she tweets her reading progress! The 2015 Stella Prize shortlist will be announced on Thursday 12th March. Following is the first of Angela Long’s book reviews from the 2015 Stella Prize longlist. ![]()
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