Lily King

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769 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Bookshelf · Launching ABC Radio National’s 2026 Top 100 Books countdown at SWF · 22 May 2026 podcast

And they can't ever really be together.

But the attraction is just, like, palpable.

And I try not to think about her being 4 and then 8 and then 12.

But it was just, for a 15-year-old girl, it was enthralling.

Shirley Hazard.

Oh, I love the response.

The Evening of the Holiday and Transit of Venus.

I guess those are the two that I would push for.

They're such entirely different books.

The Evening of the Holiday is like this very slim, I don't want to say prose poem because that might put some people off, but it's just so beautifully written.

It's a love story.

She is just a master of the sentence and of the detail.

There's a bracelet, there's an ice cream cone, and at the very end, there are a pair of gloves.

And she just, I know this doesn't make it sound, it is just a brilliant book about a big love that can't really happen.

in a very small amount of pages.

But then Transit of Venus is this big saga about two sisters who come from Australia with their terrible kind of older cousin and Dora who's supposed to take care of them.

Is she an aunt maybe?

She's kind of maybe a younger aunt.

She's just a little bit older than they are.

And

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