The life and loves of Lena Gaunt
Subtitle: a novel
By: Tracy Farr
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781910709054
Subjects: Fiction; Theremin; Musicians; Lesbians; Australian fiction
Description: "Octogenarian musician Lena Gaunt lives quietly in the Perth suburbs. An early embracer of electronic music, she found fame in Jazz-age Sydney as a virtuoso of the theremin and travelled the world before settling down to a life of daily swims... and a decades-old heroin habit. Now, for the first time in 20 years, she's performing at a festival again. In the audience is documentary filmmaker Mo Patterson. Lena's extraordinary past makes her an intriguing film subject: but is she prepared to reveal the secrets she has guarded for so long? Spanning continents and much of the twentieth century, from colonial Malacca to post-war Europe, this is a story of talent, modernity and belonging, of a woman shaped by the ebb and flow of love and loss, and the constant pull of the sea."--Back cover.
Notes: Subtitle from cover.

Originally published by Fremantle Press, Australia in 2013.

Includes reading group questions.

Shortlisted for the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award and Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, and longlisted for the 2014 Miles Frnaklin Literary Award.