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The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt

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Longlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Literary Award

Tracy Farr’s acclaimed debut novel is the fictional memoir of Dame Lena Gaunt: musician, octogenarian, junkie.

'Compelling reading' The Listener

I hold one regret from that day: that I put my first love, my cello, aside. But it was to take up a bigger love, a greater thing; it was to step into the future. Music's Most Modern Instrument. And I was to become Music's Most Modern Musician.

Tracy Farr's debut novel is the fictional memoir of...