{"id":79129,"date":"2018-02-16T13:25:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-16T02:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=79129"},"modified":"2018-02-16T13:25:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-16T02:25:39","slug":"lucky-galah-utterly-engaging-beguiling-new-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2018\/02\/16\/lucky-galah-utterly-engaging-beguiling-new-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lucky Galah is an utterly engaging and beguiling new novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-lucky-galah-tracy-sorensen\/prod9781760552657.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Lucky%20Galah%20is%20an%20utterly%20engaging%20and%20beguiling%20new%20novel\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-79130\" title=\"The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TheLuckyGalah.jpg\" alt=\"The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen\" width=\"270\" height=\"408\" \/><\/a>The Lucky Galah<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>by Tracy Sorensen<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Review by Ben Hunter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s 1964 and a remote dot of a north Western Australian town has become the clandestine home to an enormous radio satellite dish, a mission-critical piece of NASA hardware that will be a lifeline between Houston and the moon-bound Apollo rockets. This dish beams communications directly into the mind of this novel&#8217;s narrator. That narrator is a pet galah named Lucky.<\/p>\n<p>This is the refreshingly unique set-up of <em>The Lucky Galah<\/em>, an utterly engaging and beguiling new novel from Tracy Sorensen. Her screeching pink bird is the reader&#8217;s portal into a red dust town where the social\/political revolution of the 1960s is a long way away and the ideas expressed within the pages of Donald Horne&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-lucky-country-popular-penguins-donald-horne\/prod9780143202813.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Lucky%20Galah%20is%20an%20utterly%20engaging%20and%20beguiling%20new%20novel\"><em>The Lucky Country<\/em><\/a> don&#8217;t really feel within grasp. It&#8217;s a book that doesn&#8217;t just evoke nostalgia but asks us to question the way we live today. I won&#8217;t sift through the ins and outs of this story because I want you to enjoy its subtleties as I have.<\/p>\n<p>This book is a bundle of Australian kook ready to disarm, charm and move its readers. Embrace it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/the-lucky-galah-tracy-sorensen\/prod9781760552657.html?utm_source=blog.booktopia.com.au&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=The%20Lucky%20Galah%20is%20an%20utterly%20engaging%20and%20beguiling%20new%20novel\">Learn more<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen Review by Ben Hunter It&#8217;s 1964 and a remote dot of a north Western Australian town has become the clandestine home to an enormous radio satellite dish, a mission-critical piece of NASA hardware that will be a lifeline between Houston and the moon-bound Apollo rockets. This dish beams communications directly into the mind of this novel&#8217;s narrator. That narrator is a pet galah named Lucky. This is the refreshingly unique set-up of The Lucky Galah, an utterly engaging and beguiling new novel from Tracy Sorensen. Her screeching pink bird is the reader&#8217;s portal into a red dust town where the social\/political revolution of the 1960s is a long way away and the ideas expressed within the pages of Donald Horne&#8217;s The Lucky Country don&#8217;t really feel within grasp. It&#8217;s a book that doesn&#8217;t just evoke nostalgia but asks us to question the way we live today. I won&#8217;t sift through the ins and outs of this story because I want you to enjoy its subtleties as I have. This book is a bundle of Australian kook ready to disarm, charm and move its readers. Embrace it. Learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":79133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4,24,40,6678],"tags":[7623,1974,4482,8385,8386],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/TheLuckyGalahSocial.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79129"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79137,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79129\/revisions\/79137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}