![]() ![]() Change is coming to Bluebird, whether they like it or not. It's about a certain kind of Australia that we all recognise, and a certain kind of Australian whose currency is running out. In the end, what will it cost them to hang onto their past?Īcclaimed writer Malcolm Knox has written a classic Australian novel about the myths that come to define families and communities, and the lies that uphold them. His love for this way of life will drive him, and everyone around him, to increasingly desperate risks. He lives in The Lodge with his wife Kelly who is trying to leave him, their son Ben who will do anything to save him, his goddaughter Lou who is hiding from her own troubles, and Leonie, the family matriarch who has trapped them here for their own good.īut Gordon has no money and is running out of time to conserve his homeland. Gordon Grimes has become the accidental keeper of this last relic of an endangered world. Prime real estate, yet somehow not real estate at all, The Lodge is, like those who live in it, falling apart. 'If Winton is an aria, Knox is early Rolling Stones.' The GuardianĪ stunning new novel about longing, regret, redemption and the terrible legacy of decades of secrets buried in an Australian beachside suburb.Ī house perched impossibly on a cliff overlooking the stunning, iconic Bluebird Beach. ![]()
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