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Longlisted for the 2022 Miles Franklin Award
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Yael Stone
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Length
11 hours 43 minutes
Language
English
What could drive a mother to do the unthinkable?
Before: Emma Cormac married into a perfect life but now she's barely coping. Inside a brand new, palatial home, her three young children need more than she can give. Clem, a wilful four year old, is intent on mimicking her grandmother; the formidable matriarch Pat Cormac. Arthur is almost three and still won't speak. At least baby Robbie is perfect. He's the future of the family. So why can't Emma hold him without wanting to scream?
Beyond their gleaming windows, a lake vista is evaporating. The birds have mostly disappeared, too. All over Shorehaven, the Cormac family buys up land to develop into cheap housing for people they openly scorn.
After: The summers have grown even fiercer and the Cormac name doesn't mean what it used to. Arthur has taken it abroad, far from a family unable to understand him. Clem is a young artist who turns obsessively to the same dark subject. Pat doesn't even know what legacy means now. Not since the ground started sinking beneath her.
Meanwhile, a nameless woman has been released from state care. She sticks to her twelve-step program, recites her affirmations, works one day at a time on a humble life devoid of ambition or redemption. How can she have an after when baby Robbie doesn't?
Briohny Doyle (Author)
Briohny Doyle is the author of the novel The Island Will Sink, and the memoir Adult Fantasy. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Monthly, Meanjin, Overland, The Griffith Review, The Good Weekend, The Guardian, and the Sunday Times. She's performed at the Sydney Festival and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. She is a lecturer at the University of Sydney and a 2020 Fulbright Scholar. Echolalia is her second novel.
Yael Stone (Reader)
Yael is best known for her portrayal of Lorna Morello in Orange is the New Black. The series ran for 7 seasons and has been honoured with multiple SAG Award for Outstanding Comedy Ensemble award wins and Emmy Award Nominations for Outstanding Comedy and Outstanding Drama.
Other recent streaming credits include High Maintenance, Childhood's End, Deep Water, and Picnic at Hanging Rock. Yael is set to appear in the upcoming films Blacklight with Liam Neeson and BLAZE with Simon Baker.
Her theatre credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Blind Giant Dancing, As You Like It, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Diary of a Madman, Honour, Elling, Frankenstein, The Book of Everything and Scorched.
Briohny Doyle (Author)
Briohny Doyle is the author of the novel The Island Will Sink, and the memoir Adult Fantasy. Her fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Monthly, Meanjin, Overland, The Griffith Review, The Good Weekend, The Guardian, and the Sunday Times. She's performed at the Sydney Festival and Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. She is a lecturer at the University of Sydney and a 2020 Fulbright Scholar. Echolalia is her second novel.
Yael Stone (Reader)
Yael is best known for her portrayal of Lorna Morello in Orange is the New Black. The series ran for 7 seasons and has been honoured with multiple SAG Award for Outstanding Comedy Ensemble award wins and Emmy Award Nominations for Outstanding Comedy and Outstanding Drama.
Other recent streaming credits include High Maintenance, Childhood's End, Deep Water, and Picnic at Hanging Rock. Yael is set to appear in the upcoming films Blacklight with Liam Neeson and BLAZE with Simon Baker.
Her theatre credits include The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Blind Giant Dancing, As You Like It, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Diary of a Madman, Honour, Elling, Frankenstein, The Book of Everything and Scorched.