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| Author | Margo Lanagan |
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| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin |
Publication date | 1 February 2012 |
| Publication place | Australia |
| Pages | 360 |
| 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]
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]
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | Aurealis Awards | Best Fantasy Novel | Won | [5] |
| Aurealis Awards | Best Young Adult Novel | Won | [5] | |
| Queensland Literary Awards | Young Adult Book Award | Shortlisted | [6] | |
| 2013 | Western Australian Premier's Book Awards | Young Adult | Won | [7] |
| Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year | Older Readers | Won | [8] | |
| Indie Book Awards | Best Children's & YA Book | Won | [9] | |
| Norma K. Hemming Award | — | Won | [10] | |
| New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards | Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature | Shortlisted | [11] | |
| Stella Prize | — | Shortlisted | [2] | |
| Ditmar Awards | Best Novel | Won | [12] | |
| 2014 | Barbara Jefferis Award | — | Won | [13] |
| Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature | Young Adult Fiction | Shortlisted | [14] | |
| International Dublin Literary Award | — | Longlisted | [15] |