Conversion by Amanda Lohrey

Nick: so persuasive, ever the optimist, still boyishly handsome. Always on a quest to spin straw into gold, to heal wounded souls.

The conversion was his idea, but it’s Zoe who’s here now, in a valley of old coalmines and new vineyards, working out how to live in a deconsecrated church.

What to do with the altar, all those memorial plaques and the stained-glass windows?

Alone, and troubled by a restless ghost, Zoe is stuck in purgatory-until a young teacher named Melanie barges into her life.

Amanda Lohrey’s The Conversion is a startling and seductive novel about how the homes we live in shape us. Like the bestselling The Labyrinth, it is distinguished by its clear-eyed intelligence, instinct for drama, and effortless readability.

A new edition of this stunning literary foray into place, grief, and what makes a home, from Miles Franklin Award-winning author Amanda Lohrey.

About the Author:

Amanda Lohrey lives in Tasmania and writes fiction and non-fiction. She has taught at the University of Tasmania, the University of Technology Sydney and the University of Queensland. Amanda is a regular contributor to the Monthly magazine and a former senior fellow of the Australia Council’s Literature Board. She received the 2012 Patrick White Award. The Labyrinth (2021), her eighth work of fiction, won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, a Prime Minister’s Literary Award, a Tasmanian Literary Award and the Voss Literary Prize.

01 Apr 2025
 

The Conversion by Amanda Lohrey ISBN 9781923058224