Lola in the Mirror, Trent Dalton
Lola in the Mirror, Trent Dalton
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Lola in the Mirror
A Novel

Author: Trent Dalton

Narrator: Victoria Graves

Unabridged: 13 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/17/2024

Synopsis

“Unpredictable, fantastic. . . . It takes a charged narrative, like Dickens achieves, and as Dalton does too, to reach the heart and the brain. . . . To tell you more would spoil this complicated and surprising story. You should read it.”—Sydney Morning HeraldBighearted, gritty, magical and moving, an irresistible novel from the #1 internationally bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies.A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years, from the monster they left in their kitchen with a knife in his throat and the police who want to make them pay for his death. Home is now a van with four flat tires in a junkyard by the edge of the Brisbane River.The girl has no name, because names are dangerous when you're on the run. But she has a dream. A vision of a life as an artist. A life outside the grip of the Brisbane underworld. A life of love with the boy who's waiting for her on the bridge above the deadly river. And once her mother can no longer protect her, there's only one person who can help make her dreams come true. That person is Lola. But she has to find her first.Internationally bestselling author Trent Dalton delivers a big, moving, darkly funny, violent, heartbreaking and beautiful novel of love and 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.

About Trent Dalton

Trent Dalton is a two-time Walkley Award-winning journalist and the international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe, All Our Shimmering Skies, and Lola in the Mirror. His books have sold over 1.3 million copies in Australia alone. He lives in Brisbane, Australia, with his wife and two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by PattyMacDotComma on November 03, 2023

5★ “ ‘Do I have the monster blood in me, Mum?’ I asked. ‘Nah,’she replied. ‘But he’s my father,’ I said. ‘You said I got my gentle art side from you. What if I got a monster side from him?’ ‘Nah,’ Mum said, ‘you got more Monet blood than monster blood.’ ‘Do you have any monster blood, Mum?’ I asked. ‘Yea......more

Goodreads review by Alright Hey on December 30, 2024

a pleasant surprise that I’m still not sure how I feel about. my 100th book of the year! this book was good. an interesting enough story that kept me mostly engaged. a lot of great messaging in this book and a really beautiful but terrifyingly ugly story. There were some really cool moments in this......more

Goodreads review by Natalie on October 09, 2023

If you haven't closed the last page on a Trent Dalton novel and weeped with equal parts love, hope and despair for humanity, what are you doing with your life? Dalton has some superhero talent for taking both the best and worst parts of what makes us human and writing about it with such empathy and o......more

Goodreads review by Gloria on October 04, 2023

⭐️5 Stars⭐️ Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton is a phenomenal read, from the first page I thought wow! The story is told so beautifully, it’s creative, dark, mysterious and magical and I devoured it appreciating every sentence. Set in Brisbane Australia a seventeen year old girl and her mother have b......more

Goodreads review by Marieke on May 15, 2024

From the author of Boy Swallows Universe. That mirror of yours might be the most trustworthy thing in your life. What if you’ve been on the run since you were six months old? What if your mom might have acted like a monster, but you can’t imagine her being one? What if you don’t have a name because te......more

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