Melt
Published on 2. May 2018
278 pages
978-1-922198-33-4 (ISBN)
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Summer Wright organises her life down to the minute. And when boyfriend Adrian proposes marriage - on schedule - she will reach the peak of The Cone of Certainty. At least, that's the plan - until adventure-show queen Cougar Gale intervenes. Suddenly Summer is impersonating Cougar in Antarctica: learning climate science on the fly, building an igloo, improvising scripts based on Dynasty, and above all trying not to be revealed as an impostor. But Summer finds it particularly hard to fool climate scientist Lucas Nilsson. Can Summer use her extreme project management skills to get Project Adrian back on track and make a success of "Cougar on Ice"? And what is The Krill Question anyway?
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Lisa Walker is a full-time writer living in northern New South Wales. She has previously worked in environmental communication and as a wilderness guide. She has Masters degrees in creative writing and natural resource management and is currently a PhD candidate in creative writing at the University of Queensland. Lisa's writing has appeared in the Review of Australian Fiction, Griffith Review and The Age. She was winner of the Byron Writers Festival Short Story Award in 2008 and finalist in the ABC Short Story Award in 2007. Her radio play, Baddest Backpackers, was produced by Radio National in 2008. She was awarded the Varuna HarperCollins Award in 2011 and the Varuna Litlink Award in 2009 and 2015. Lisa's novels include Liar Bird (HarperCollins Australia, 2012), Sex, Lies and Bonsai (HarperCollins Australia, 2013; HarperCollins US, forthcoming 2018), Arkie's Pilgrimage to the Next Big Thing (Random House Australia, 2015), Paris Syndrome (HarperCollins Australia, 2018), Melt (Lacuna, 2018).
