The strays
Communal living
Ambition
Australian fiction
Artists, fiction
Australia, fiction
Dysfunctional families
Fiction, coming of age
Fathers and daughters
Fiction, family life
Artists
Fiction, historical
Historical fiction
Fiction, historical, general
New York Times reviewed
Fiction
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated …
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