Miles Franklin Award goes to Amanda Lohrey
The winner of this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious literary prize, is Amanda Lohrey with The Labyrinth (Text Publishing)!
A mesmerizing story of blame and denial, of strained relationships between parents and children, The Labyrinth is a kind of meditation on how art can be ruthlessly destructive and yet restore sanity and peace.
Erica Marsden's son, an artist, has been imprisoned for manslaughter. The grieving mother cuts all ties with family and friends and retreats to a small coastal village near the prison where her son is serving his sentence. There, Erica decides to build a labyrinth by the sea, but in order to build it and solve the dilemma it conceals, she will need the help of strangers - and, more importantly, she will have to learn to trust them.
'One of her most successful yet - mystical, earthed and beautifully told.' Age
'THE LABYRINTH offers a pull towards the unknown and a comfort in solitude. It is a sharply tuned novel, a sprawling narrative that resists rigid expectations.' Guardian
'Iridescent...THE LABYRINTH is a nuanced and engrossing novel of bread and bones broken, the trace and rack of violence, and threads that lead the way out of exile.' Saturday Paper
