Michelle de Kretser

Michelle de Kretser’s novels are playful, deeply intelligent and engrossing; they comment on contemporary Australia, and the wider world we live in now. Her last book, Questions of Travel, swept the national prize pool, winning the Miles Franklin, the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and more.

Her beguiling new novella, Springtime, is an Australian ghost story. Frances and Charlie met in Melbourne, when he was married with a young son. Now they live together in Sydney, with a rescue dog – and the sense that they have tipped the world on its axis. When Frances sees a strange woman in their garden, she is overtaken by a sense of the eerie. Get a glimpse of this national treasure’s newest work.

Meet a literary icon – and a woman of ideas.