DAYS OF INNOCENCE AND WONDER by Lucy Treloar

I’ve been looking forward to Lucy Treloar’s latest novel, after swooning over her award-winning Wolfe Island. I am delighted to say I’m not disappointed. There’s an exquisite tenderness to the way the author handles complex characters, revealing their stories through the prism of time with precision and economy.

From the blurb:

When someone is taken away, what is left behind.

. . .both a reckoning with fear and loss, and a recognition of the power of belonging. . .