The Yellow House: 2018 VOGEL WINNER

Author(s): Emily O'Grady

Australian author

Winner of the 2018 The Australian/Vogel's Literary Award Even before I knew anything about Granddad Les, Wally and me sometimes dared each other to see how close to the knackery we could get. It was way out in the bottom paddock, and Dad had banned us from going further than the dam. Wally said it was because the whole paddock was haunted. He said he could see ghosts wisping in the grass like sheets blown from the washing line. But even then I knew for sure that was a lie. Ten-year-old Cub lives with her parents, older brother Cassie, and twin brother Wally on a lonely property bordering an abandoned cattle farm and knackery. Their lives are shadowed by the infamous actions of her Granddad Les in his yellow weatherboard house, just over the fence. Although Les died twelve years ago, his notoriety has grown in Cub's lifetime and the local community have ostracised the whole family. When Cub's estranged aunt Helena and cousin Tilly move next door into the yellow house, the secrets the family want to keep buried begin to bubble to the surface. And having been kept in the dark about her grandfather's crimes, Cub is now forced to come to terms with her family's murky history. The Yellow House is a powerful novel about loyalty and betrayal; about the legacies of violence and the possibilities of redemption.

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Shortlisted in the 2018 People's Choice Awards Qld Premier's Literary Awards

Winner of the Australian Vogel Award.

Emily O’Grady was born in Brisbane in 1991. The Yellow House is her first novel. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in Review of Australian Fiction, Westerly, Australian Poetry Journal, The Lifted Brow, Kill Your Darlings, The Big Issue Fiction Edition and Award Winning Australian Writing. In 2012 she won the QUT Undergraduate Writing Prize, and in 2013 she won the QUT Postgraduate Writing Prize.

General Fields

  • : 9781760632854
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : November 2017
  • : 234mm X 153mm
  • : Australia
  • : April 2018
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 324
  • : 823/.92
  • : English
  • : 2018
  • : Paperback
  • : Emily O'Grady