Lola in the Mirror: A Novel of Dreams, Fate, and Reflection

Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving,Lola in the Mirroris the bestselling and irresistible new novel from the author ofBoy Swallows UniverseandAll Our Shimmering Skies, Trent Dalton.

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Unpredictable, fantastic It takes a charged narrative, like Dickens achieves, and as Dalton does too, to reach the heart and the brain – writing that is able to carry both stories, the individual and the political/personal To tell you more would spoil this complicated and surprising story. You should read it.Sydney Morning Herald

Mirror, mirror, on the grass, whats my future? Whats my past?

A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from police and the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat. Theyve found themselves a home inside a van with four flat tyres parked in a scrapyard by the edge of the Brisbane River.

The girl has no name because names are dangerous when youre on the run. But the girl has a dream. A vision of a life as an artist of international acclaim. A life outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld drug queen Lady Flora Box. A life of love with the boy whos waiting for her on the bridge that stretches across a flooding, deadly river. A life beyond the bullet that has her name on it. And now that the storm clouds are rising, theres only one person who can help make her dreams come true. That person is Lola and she carries all the answers. But to find Lola, the girl with no name must first do one of the hardest things we can ever do. She must look in the mirror.

From international bestselling author Trent Dalton,Lola in the Mirroris a big, moving, 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: all our past, all our present, and all our possible futures.

Trent Daltons third novel reminds me of the 1980s advertising slogan for the authors home state of Queensland: Beautiful one day, perfect the next Lola in the Mirroris a bold, big-hearted, hopeful, humorous, dark, reflective, truthful, superbly written novel that confirms Daltons place in all the shimmering skies (to borrow the title of his second novel) of Australian literature. He is not a rising star but a star full stop.The Australian

Wonderful An original, heart-thumping novel you are right there with the protagonists, feeling and believing every word and every ra

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