A PhD in creative writing has provided the foundation for Curtin graduate, Dr Brooke Davis, to launch a career as a full-time novelist.<\/p>\n
Brooke\u2019s debut novel \u2018Lost & Found\u2019, published by Hachette Australia on June 24, has been well received internationally with rights sold in more than 21 countries including the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Italy, Germany and France. The novel was the \u2018buzz book\u2019 of the 2014 London Book Fair.<\/p>\n
Brooke, originally from Victoria and now resident in Perth, wrote the novel as part of her PhD on writing about grief, which she completed in 2013.<\/p>\n
Her achievement has been acknowledged by her Curtin supervisor, Dr David Whish-Wilson, Senior Lecturer in the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not surprised by the response to Brooke\u2019s work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrooke is an accomplished and thoughtful writer who is dedicated to her craft. Her talents are obvious to see, but the method and measure of her story-telling, and her ability to communicate emotion are enduring features of her writing.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a spectacular debut. The accolades are well deserved and I am certain they will motivate Brooke to achieving even greater literary feats,\u201d Dr Whish-Wilson said.<\/p>\n
Brooke, a bookseller by profession, said she had been \u2018overwhelmed\u2019 by the response to her first novel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI had fairly low expectations of what the book would do,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was amazed when it got published in Australia, now it\u2019s a dream run that just doesn\u2019t seem to end. It\u2019s a beautiful thing and I\u2019m ridiculously excited, overwhelmed and terrified,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Brooke said the first ideas for the novel came when she was on a trip overseas in 2008 and her mum had just passed away.<\/p>\n
The novel is set on Western Australia\u2019s south coast and is written from the point of view of three different characters, who deal with their experiences of life, love, and the inevitability of loss.<\/p>\n
An extract from the book titled \u2018Karl the Touch Typist\u2019 won the 2011 Postgraduate Queensland Writing Prize.<\/p>\n
Amongst Brooke\u2019s other awards are the 2009 Bobbie Cullen Memorial Award for Women Writers and the 2009 AAWP prize for best post-graduate paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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