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The World Without Us

Author: Mireille Juchau

2017 Longlist

It has been six months since Tess Müller stopped speaking. Her silence is baffling to her parents, her teachers and her younger sister Meg, but the more urgent mystery for both girls is where their mother, Evangeline, goes each day, pushing an empty pram and returning home wet, muddy and dishevelled.

Their father, Stefan, struggling with his own losses, tends to his apiary and tries to understand why his bees are disappearing. But after he discovers a car wreck and human remains on their farm, old secrets emerge to threaten the fragile family.

One day Tess’s teacher Jim encounters Evangeline by the wild Repentance River. Jim is in flight from his own troubles in Sydney, and Evangeline, raised in a mountain commune and bearing the scars of the fire that destroyed it, is a puzzle he longs to solve.

As the rainforest trees are felled and the lakes fill with run-off from the expanding mines, Tess watches the landscape of her family undergo shifts of its own. A storm is coming and the Müllers are in its path.

Sometimes we must confront what has been lost so that we can know the solace of being found.

The World Without Us is a beautifully told story of secrets and survival, family and community, loss and renewal.

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About the Author

Mireille Juchau is a critically acclaimed Australian novelist. The World Without Us is her third novel. It won The Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, was shortlisted for The Stella Prize, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award,and the Australian Book Industry Awards 2016. Mireille’s second novel, Burning In, was shortlisted for four awards including the Prime Minister’s Literary Award. Her debut, Machines for Feeling,was shortlisted for the Vogel/Australian Literary Award. Mireille is also known for her short fiction, essays and reviews and her international award winning play, White Gifts, was performed and published in the US.

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Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award 2016; Shortlisted, NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2016; Shortlisted, The Stella Prize 2016; Longlisted, Miles Franklin Award 2016

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Mireille Juchau

Country

AU

Nominating Library

Australia, Sydney, The State Library of New South Wales

Publisher

Bloomsbury, UK

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