Patrick Carey
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It's written in recent times in 2016 and it was the result of the...
It was shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier's Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript.
So it obviously got some press at the time, but I totally missed it.
A friend of mine recommended it to me, and that's Jennifer Downe's Our Magic Hour.
And it is really one of the best Australian novels I've read in recent times.
It is so... Yeah, OK.
I'm glad that I'm not the only one, Cassie.
It's so bloody good.
She's young.
She's 29, I think.
And this was written in 2016, so she would have been in her mid-20s when she wrote it.
And it's really achieved.
It's really touching.
It's really... It's just really accurate on what it's like to be a young person living in urban Australia.
Our magic house set in Melbourne.
But, you know, as a Sydneysider, I feel like I can have some...
you know, sympathetic attachment to growing up in a town like Melbourne.
Shall I say a city like Melbourne?
A big, big hulking metropolis.
Exactly.