"You could lift out any sentence in The Strays and admire the sheer artistry of its melody and composition. The Strays is an eloquent portrayal of the damage caused by self-absorption as well as a moving study of isolation." - The Saturday Age (Australia) "Treating this novel as a historical fiction risks missing some of its breadth of insight.
" The Strays is like a gemstone: polished and multifaceted, reflecting illuminations back to the reader and holding rich colour in its depths."- Stella Prize Judges' Report "Bitto adapts a leisurely storytelling pace that matches the period as she explores with quiet passion both the cost of creative life on family and the definition of family itself." - Kirkus By placing her so firmly in a comfortable future, however, the core story loses much of its suspense, and too many of the novel's crucial events take place offstage, described rather than depicted." - Publishers Weekly "Lily, in 1985 a professor of art history, is a thoughtful and articulate observer, aware of her own emotional investment in the family as well as of the many fractures within its seemingly structure. Memorable and moving, this is a novel not to be missed." - Booklist The Strays is a marvel of setting and characterization, re-creating a time of artistic revolution and personal revelation. A haunting evocation of life-changing friendship.
As the girls find themselves drawn closer to the white-hot flame of creativity, emotions and art collide with explosive consequences - and Evan's own daughters may be forced to pay a dangerous price for his choices. An only child accustomed to loneliness, Lily soon becomes infatuated with the creative chaos of the Trenthams and aches to fully belong.ĭespite the Trenthams' glamorous allure, the artists' real lives are shaped by dire Faustian bargains and spectacular falls from grace. Lily has never experienced anything like the Trenthams' home, where Evan and his wife have created a wild, makeshift family of like-minded artists, all living and working together to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930's Australia. On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. For readers of Atonement, a powerful and haunting story of three sisters and their friend who grow up on the outskirts of their parents' glamorous bohemian lifestyle.
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