''The Lucky Galah'' (2018) is a novel by Australian author

Tracy Sorensen Tracy Sorensen is an Australian novelist, filmmaker and academic. Career Sorensen is a tutor and lecturer at Charles Sturt University and has published five academic papers. In February 2018 her debut novel '' The Lucky Galah'' was published ...

Plot summary

''The Lucky Galah'' is set in a fictional remote coastal town named Port Badminton in

Western Australia Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...

in the year 1969. The story is narrated by a

galah The galah (; ''Eolophus roseicapilla''), also known as the pink and grey cockatoo or rose-breasted cockatoo, is the only species within genus ''Eolophus'' of the cockatoo family. Found throughout Australia, it is among the most common of the co ...

named Lucky who can receive signals from satellite dishes (based on

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Reviews

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br>Debut writers series: The Lucky Galah
* ''Newtown Review of Books'
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Awards

* The UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing ( 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards) — Shortlisted * The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction (2018) — Shortlisted * The Indie Book Award for Debut Fiction (2019) — Longlisted *

Russell Prize The Russell Prize (Russell Prize for Humour Writing) is an Australian literary prize awarded every second year by the State Library of New South Wales to a humorous book. It was established in 2014 through a donation by Peter Wentworth Russell, "a ...

(2019) — Shortlisted *

Miles Franklin Award The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the will of Miles Franklin (1879–195 ...

(2019) — Longlisted

References

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