Ebook {Epub PDF} The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen

 · Tracy Sorensen is a writer, filmmaker and academic. She was born in Brisbane, grew up in Carnarvon on the north coast of Western Australia and lived in and around Newtown, Sydney, for about 15 years. She now lives in Bathurst with her partner Steve and a black Labrador (Bertie). The Lucky Galah is her first novel.  · The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen. Reviewed by Ellen Cregan. 26 Feb Lucky is a galah living in the remote town of Port Badminton, on the north-west coast of Australia, and she is a born storyteller. With the help of a defunct satellite dish, which can sporadically communicate the thoughts of the town’s residents, Lucky is able to show her audience who people are when they are alone. About The Lucky Galah. It’s and a remote Australian coastal town is poised to play its part in the Moon Landing. An influx of expat NASA employees working at the tracking station on the sand dune just out of town shakes things up.

The Lucky Galah is a novel about fate. About Australia. About what it means to be human. It just happens to be narrated by a galah called Lucky. The Lucky Galah is an irrepressible squawk of a novel that's a pure joy to read. It's hilarious, wildly clever and almost certain to ruffle a few feathers. Tracy Sorensen The Lucky Galah Pan Macmillan PB pp $ Michelle McLaren lives in Melbourne and is a fiction co-editor for Verity La. A novel narrated by a galah might seem slightly avant-garde; one narrated by a galah receiving transmissions from a satellite dish even more so. However, I think it gives Tracy Sorensen's writing a sense of wonder - I felt like I was experiencing all of Lucky's triumphs and setbacks as she was.

About The Lucky Galah. It’s and a remote Australian coastal town is poised to play its part in the Moon Landing. An influx of expat NASA employees working at the tracking station on the sand dune just out of town shakes things up. My name’s Tracy Sorensen. I’m a novelist, freelance journalist, and video maker based in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. I’m currently the Judy Harris Writer in Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. The Lucky Galah: My novel, The Lucky Galah, has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. ★s The Lucky Galah is the first novel by Australian academic, journalist, film-maker and author, Tracy Sorensen. Lucky hadn’t been named until she was rescued from imminent death by Lizzie, who knew a lot about birds. And not long after that Lucky first received a transmission from the Dish, up there on the Red Range outside Port Badminton.