A review by blairmahoney
The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen

4.0

An impressive first novel from Sorensen, long listed for the 2019 Miles Franklin Award. In some ways the selling point is the perspective of a Galah who receives messages from a dish set up to track the Apollo missions in Western Australia in the 1960s, but that conceit is actually handled fairly lightly and doesn't intrude too much into the tale of people trying to find their place in small town 60s Australia that leads to a tragic outcome. There's a sense of fun to the novel that is sometimes absent in these kinds of stories.