What I've Learnt - Trent Dalton

WHAT I'VE LEARNT

Trent Dalton

Author

Record-breaking, award-winning and bestselling author Trent Dalton returns with a big-hearted, gritty, magical and moving new novel, Lola in the Mirror.

A girl and her mother are on the lam. They’ve been running for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat.

They’ve found themselves a home inside an orange 1987 Toyota HiAce van with four flat tyres parked in a scrapyard by the edge of the Brisbane River.

Lola in the Mirror is a big, blackly funny, violent, heartbreaking and beautiful novel of love, fate, life and death, and all the things we see when we look in the mirror.

TRENT DALTON ON LOLA IN THE MIRROR AND WHY HE WROTE IT:

‘There is this incredibly personal and intimate and sometimes terrifying thing that each one of us does every day ... I’m talking about looking into the mirror. That deeply confronting moment when it’s all quiet and still and you look deep inside yourself and see all your irretrievable past, all of your tricky present and all your possible futures. I wanted to write a book that felt like that.

It’s an extremely current story about a country neck-deep in a national housing crisis. It’s the story of my city, Brisbane, in the lead-up to hosting an Olympic Games in a state where homelessness has risen by three times the national average. It’s the story of the seventeen years I spent writing social affairs journalism across this country.

Trent Dalton is a dual Walkley Award winning journalist, who also happens to be an exquisite novelist. 2018's Boy Swallows Universe took out the awards season – and the hearts of readers – All Our Shimmering Skies has been hugely successful as has Love Stories an ode to love

“This latest book Lola in The Mirror is filled with stories told to me by people sleeping rough across my city, the people living in the nooks and the crannies and the cracks of life. It’s the product of sitting on a street corner for three months, watching people and asking them about love and loss and belonging – my book Love Stories was in fact a research project for this new novel. Lola in the Mirror is a love story, first. But it’s also a story of art, crime, mystery and, most of all, life.’

His books have sold over 1.2 million copies in Australia alone. Boy Swallows Universe has been adapted to a smash-hit theatrical production..soon to be a series .. more on that later

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