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Success of the 2015 Stella Award. Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Honor Award for an Unpublished Manuscript 2013, the Indie Reserve Honor for Debut Fiction 2015, the Dobbie Literary Honor 2015, and the NSW Premier's UTA Glenda Adams Honor 2015. Longlisted for the Dublin IMPAC Award 2015. On her first day at a new university, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his partner are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by welcoming other like-minded painters to have and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this outdoors, makeshift family and longs to seriously be a part of it. As the years move, Lily observes the way the lives of the painters come to indicate the same themes as their artwork: Faustian discounts and spectacular comes from grace. Yet it's not Evan but his own daughters who pay the purchase price for his radicalism. The Strays is an engrossing story of ambition, sacrifice and affected loyalties from an exciting new talent.
