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Author

Amanda Lohrey

Amanda Lohrey lives in Tasmania and writes fiction and non-fiction. She has taught at the University of Tasmania, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland. Amanda is a regular contributor to the Monthly magazine and a former senior fellow of the Australia Council’s Literature Board. She received the 2012 Patrick White Award. The Labyrinth (2021), her eighth work of fiction, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a Prime Minister’s Literary Award, a Tasmanian Literary Award and the Voss Literary Prize.

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Title:

The Conversion (MP3)

Written by:

Amanda Lohrey 

Read by:

Nicole Nabout 

Format:

Unabridged MP3 CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

1 

Duration:

6 hours 52 minutes 

MP3 size:

298 MB 

Published:

November 28 2023 

Available Date:

November 28 2023 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781038656179 

Genres:

Fiction; Australian Fiction; Literary Fiction 

Publisher:

Bolinda audio 

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Price

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AUD$ 24.95

AUD$ 24.95

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Award winning author
Australian author

From Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey comes a stunning literary foray into place, grief and what makes a home.

Nick – so persuasive, ever the optimist, still boyishly handsome. Always on a quest to design the perfect environment, convinced it could heal a wounded soul. The conversion was Nick's idea, but it's Zoe who's here now, in a valley of old coalmines and new vineyards, working out how to live in a deconsecrated church. What to do with all that vertical space, those oppressive stained-glass windows? Can a church become a home or, even with all its vestiges removed, will it remain forever what it was intended to be? For Zoe, alone and troubled by a ghost from the recent past, the little church seems empty of the possibilities Nick enthused about. She is stuck in purgatory – until a determined young teacher pushes her way into Zoe's life, convinced of her own peculiar mission for the building. Melanie has something of Nick's unquenchable zeal about her. And it's clear to Zoe that she won't take no for an answer.

'Her writing is the literature of ideas.' (on The Labrynth)
The Australian

‘Lohrey achieves a kind of perfection.’ (on Vertigo)
Sydney Morning Herald