Lola in the Mirror: A Novel

A girl and her mother have been on the run for sixteen years after leaving a man dead in their kitchen. They now live in a van with flat tires in a junkyard by the Brisbane River. The girl has no name—names are dangerous when fleeing—but she dreams of becoming an artist and building a life outside the Brisbane underworld, particularly with a boy waiting for her on a bridge above the river. When her mother can no longer protect her, the girl must find someone named Lola to help her dreams come true. Trent Dalton's novel explores love, fate, life, and death, examining what we see when we look in the mirror: our past, present, and possible futures. The book includes black-and-white line art throughout.