Australia

Felicity Castagna

Felicity Castagna won the 2014 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction for her previous novel, The Incredible Here and Now, which was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia and NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and adapted for the stage by the National Theatre of Parramatta. Her collection of short stories, Small Indiscretions, was named an Australian Book Review Book of the Year. Castagna’s work has appeared on radio and television, and she runs the storytelling series Studio Stories.

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“It is a timely narrative that looks at a family in a working-class Sydney suburb in the lead up to the infamous Tampa affair.”

— The Reading Women, Apr 1 2019

“In her timely and powerful novel, Castagna (Small Indiscretions) successfully delves into issues of immigration, urban development, and xenophobia. [ . . . ] This is a haunting and compassionate consideration of the question of who can and cannot come into a country.”

— Publishers Weekly, Apr 1 2019

“A lightly spun story that, while never preachy or didactic, is full of timely lessons for those pondering the rise of me-first nationalism throughout the world.”

— Kirkus Reviews, Jan 21 2019