In my enthusiasm for supporting my favourite authors and bookshops while we’re under lockdown here in Melbourne, I have accidentally bought myself two copies of Amanda Lohrey’s new novel The Labyrinth. (One from Readings, and one from Benn’s Books Bentleigh).
This means that you, my lucky readers, have the opportunity to win a giveaway copy.
I haven’t read it yet, but it’s by Amanda Lohrey so of course it will be wonderful. This is the blurb:
Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her grief, Erica retreats from Sydney to a sleepy hamlet on the south coast, near where Daniel is serving his sentence.
There, in a rundown shack by the ocean, she obsesses over building a labyrinth. To create it—to navigate the path through her quandary—Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past.
The Labyrinth is a story of guilt and denial, of the fraught relationship between parents and children. It is also an examination of how art can be ruthlessly destructive, and restorative. Mesmerising yet disquieting, it shows Amanda Lohrey to be at the peak of her powers
HOW TO ENTER
Interested? Please add your name to the comments below, and I’ll draw the winner at the end of next week. All entries from readers with an Australian postcode for delivery will be eligible but it is a condition of entry that if you are the winner, you must contact me with a postal address by the deadline that will be specified in the blog post that announces the winner. (I’ll redraw if this deadline isn’t met).
Good luck everybody!
Author: Amanda Lohrey
Title: The Labyrinth
Publisher: Text
ISBN: 9781922330109
If you don’t want to wait for the giveaway, do what I did, and buy a copy from your favourite bricks-and-mortar bookshop.
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Please add me to the list. It would make a perfect gift for a friend of mine. And might I add, Lisa, this is so You. The support you give is truly wonderful.
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By: karenlee thompson on August 14, 2020
at 3:32 pm
You’re first cab off the rank! (You’re sure you wouldn’t be tempted to read it first?)
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By: Lisa Hill on August 14, 2020
at 4:28 pm
I probably would! She is a very good friend and fellow-writer so she would certainly understand receiving it as a pre-read. LOL.
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By: karenlee thompson on August 17, 2020
at 10:46 am
Not me thank you Lisa
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By: wadholloway on August 14, 2020
at 5:56 pm
No? Just as well, I’m already sending a small parcel your way with Small Town Rising and Sugar Heaven, and a surprise as well!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 14, 2020
at 6:34 pm
Yes please put me on the list.
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By: Fay Kennedy on August 14, 2020
at 7:40 pm
Will do:)
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By: Lisa Hill on August 14, 2020
at 9:28 pm
I was just looking at this book yesterday in the bookshop but had several books I bought in my arms. I’ll be happy to step up for this. I’ve been reading things then moving them on to others. One way to keep the shelves from creaking too much😃😃😊
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By: TravellinPenguin on August 14, 2020
at 8:35 pm
You’re in:)
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By: Lisa Hill on August 14, 2020
at 9:28 pm
Thanks Lisa. Love this author :)
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By: Jenny on August 15, 2020
at 5:59 am
So do I! Good luck:)
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By: Lisa Hill on August 15, 2020
at 9:15 am
Thanks for the chance Lisa. Please add my name to the list.
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By: robinandian2013 on August 15, 2020
at 6:20 am
Good luck!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 15, 2020
at 9:13 am
Please put my name in Lisa. I’d love a copy. It sounds wonderful. Thanks!
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By: robyncadwallader on August 15, 2020
at 9:53 am
I certainly will. I hope the new novel is going well:)
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By: Lisa Hill on August 15, 2020
at 10:44 am
Yes, please add my name to the list. I haven’t read any of Amanda Lohrey’s work but the plot sounds intriguing.
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By: ThoughtsBecomeWords on August 15, 2020
at 10:57 am
You are in for a treat if you win it:)
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By: Lisa Hill on August 15, 2020
at 11:53 am
Oh , yes please! I’d love to be added to the list. Thank you.
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By: Jennifer on August 15, 2020
at 11:22 am
Yes, will do:)
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By: Lisa Hill on August 15, 2020
at 11:52 am
:)
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By: ThoughtsBecomeWords on August 15, 2020
at 12:05 pm
I don’t normally enter giveaways but this sounds intriguing. I love the cover design.
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By: kimbofo on August 15, 2020
at 2:03 pm
Done!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 15, 2020
at 6:19 pm
I’d love to read this! Please add me to the list :)
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By: Jess White on August 15, 2020
at 5:36 pm
Will do! I hope you win in the QLA too!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 15, 2020
at 6:20 pm
Thanks Lisa!! I think the book about rugby is going to win … it’s Queensland after all!
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By: Jess White on August 15, 2020
at 6:32 pm
O woe!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 15, 2020
at 11:09 pm
Hi Lisa, Labyrinth was written up in the Age yesterday, and with your review I would like to read it. So please put me in the draw, thanks.
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By: Meg on August 16, 2020
at 8:08 am
Will do, Meg:)
(I wonder if I can find that review online…)
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By: Lisa Hill on August 16, 2020
at 10:58 am
The review was in the Oz
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By: wadholloway on August 16, 2020
at 11:41 am
Oh dear, then I have to ‘fess up to having that rag in the house. We only get it at the weekend but still I feel it’s like hosting sleaze in my home.
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By: Lisa Hill on August 16, 2020
at 2:57 pm
What a great prize! I’d love to be included in the draw, please Lisa.
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By: RoseReadsNovels on August 17, 2020
at 4:34 pm
Will do, Rose, good luck!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 17, 2020
at 7:05 pm
Thank you Lisa for this fabulous give away opportunity. This is my first Amanda Lohrey book and it looks intriguing, especially as she is an Australian writer.
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By: Michelle J on August 17, 2020
at 11:35 pm
Hello Michelle, welcome and good luck!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 18, 2020
at 9:17 am
Please add me to your list, Lisa. Have just read a review and would like to read it.
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By: elainelewis2013 on August 18, 2020
at 4:45 pm
Will do!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 19, 2020
at 12:04 am
Thank you 😊
Sarah Ellwood
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By: Sarahmary on August 19, 2020
at 10:12 am
Good luck Sarah!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 19, 2020
at 10:44 am
The story line looks intriguing, it would be my first read of Amanda’s. Another fabulous Australian writer it seems!
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By: Cristina Ferreiro on August 19, 2020
at 10:32 am
Oh yes, she’s wonderful. Good luck in the draw!
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By: Lisa Hill on August 19, 2020
at 10:36 am