Trick of the Light
by Laura Elvery

Trick of the Light is the beguiling debut collection from one of Australia’s rising stars.

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Overview

An art teacher sends four of her students on a guerrilla mission. A young runner struggles to make sense of his best friend’s death. A health-food company adopts a farcical promotional strategy. A factory worker spends her days applying radioactive paint to watches, while dreaming of a future with her new suitor.

With a keen eye for detail and rich emotional insight, Laura Elvery reveals the fears and fantasies of everyday people searching for meaning.

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The Saturday Paper

‘It’s her inventive characters meeting original circumstances that makes Trick of the Light that rare thing: a page-turning short fiction collection.’

Brisbane News

‘An assured collection, insightful and moving.’

Overland

‘Elvery’s debut reads like a triumph of excavation – a collection in which dark matter is exposed and subsequently transformed.’

Laura Elvery

Laura Elvery is the author of Trick of the Light and Ordinary Matter, which won the 2021 Steele Rudd Award for a Short Story Collection and was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance and the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award. Her work has been published in numerous literary journals and she has won the Josephine Ulrick Prize for Literature, the Margaret River Short Story Competition, the Neilma Sidney Short Story Prize and the Fair Australia Prize for Fiction. Nightingale is her first novel. She lives in Brisbane.