Sea Hearts

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Sea Hearts
Sea Hearts cover.jpg
Author Margo Lanagan
GenreFiction
Publisher Allen & Unwin
Publication date
1 February 2012
Publication placeAustralia
Pages360
ISBN 9781742375052

Sea Hearts is a 2012 novel by Margo Lanagan. The novel is a young adult work of speculative fiction set on the fictional Rollrock Island. It explores a world in which witches have replaced all of the island's human women with selkies who are unfailingly obedient to their husbands. [1] [2]

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Reception

In a review in Australian Book Review , Maya Linden wrote that the novel did not leave a lasting impact on the reader and that it "doesn't turn out to be quite the incomparable offering it promises". [3] A more positive review in the Newtown Review of Books described the book as a "finely wrought, disturbing novel" that "raises unsettling questions about male desire". [4]

Awards

Awards for Sea Hearts
YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
2012 Aurealis Awards Best Fantasy NovelWon [5]
Aurealis Awards Best Young Adult NovelWon [5]
Queensland Literary Awards Young Adult Book AwardShortlisted [6]
2013 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards Young AdultWon [7]
Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Older ReadersWon [8]
Indie Book Awards Best Children's & YA BookWon [9]
Norma K. Hemming Award Won [10]
New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's LiteratureShortlisted [11]
Stella Prize Shortlisted [2]
Ditmar Awards Best NovelWon [12]
2014 Barbara Jefferis Award Won [13]
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature Young Adult FictionShortlisted [14]
International Dublin Literary Award Longlisted [15]

References

  1. "Allen & Unwin". Sea Hearts. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  2. 1 2 "Sea Hearts". Stella Prize. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  3. Linden, Maya (May 2012). "Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan". Australian Book Review. No. 341. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  4. Funnell, Linda (13 March 2012). "Sea Hearts". Newtown Review of Books. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  5. 1 2 "Sea Hearts". Books+Publishing. 20 May 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  6. McDonald, Andrew (20 August 2012). "Queensland Literary Awards 2012 Shortlists Announced". Readings. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  7. "2012 Winners". State Library of Western Australia. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  8. "Winners 2013". Children's Book Council of Australia. Archived from the original on 14 April 2016. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  9. "The 2013 Indie Awards Shortlist Announced". Readings. 29 January 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  10. "Lanagan Wins Hemming Award". Locus Magazine. 3 June 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  11. "NSW Premier's Literary Awards shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  12. "2013 Ditmar Award Winners". Locus Magazine. 2 May 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  13. "Lanagan, McFarlane joint winners of 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award". Books+Publishing. 7 November 2014. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  14. "Adelaide literature awards shortlist". InDaily. 10 December 2013. Retrieved 24 August 2025.
  15. "Dublin Literary Award 2014". Dublin Literary Award. Retrieved 24 August 2025.