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Skylarking
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Inspired by a true story, Skylarking is a stunning debut novel about friendship, love, and loss, one that questions what it is to remember and how tempting it can be to forget. By the author of The Hummingbird Effect and The Mother Fault Kate and Harriet...
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Inspired by a true story, Skylarking is a stunning debut novel about friendship, love, and loss, one that questions what it is to remember and how tempting it can be to forget.
By the author of The Hummingbird Effect and The Mother Fault
Kate and Harriet are best friends, growing up together on an isolated Australian cape in the 1880s. As daughters of the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longing. But one moment in McPhail's hut will change the course of their lives forever.
Inspired by a true story, Skylarking is a stunning debut novel about friendship, love, and loss, one that questions what it is to remember and how tempting it can be to forget.
Skylarking is a strikingly real and deeply moving meditation on adolescent friendship in all its complexities - a heart-wrenching work. - Olga Lorenzo
This impressive novel takes a historical case and re-imagines it with such sensitivity and insight that we feel this must be how it truly happened. - Emily Bitto
A brave, beautiful, and richly textured book that delicately explores the fault lines in love and friendship. - Lucy Treloar
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781760646387
Publisher: Black Inc.
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 02 March 2026
Country: Australia
Imprint: Black Inc.
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 1.0mm
Width: 1.0mm
Height: 1.0mm
Weight: 1g
Pages: 288
About the Author
Kate Mildenhall is an author, writing teacher and podcaster. Her debut novel, Skylarking, was longlisted for Debut Fiction in the 2017 Indie Book Awards and the 2017 Voss Literary Prize. She is also the author of the novels The Mother Fault, The Hummingbird Effect and The Hiding Place and a picture book, To Stir with Love, illustrated by Jess Racklyeft.
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