The dream of being able to fly is now physical reality but only the rich and powerful can afford the surgery, drugs, and gene manipulation to become fliers. Peri, a poor girl from the regions, will sacrifice anything to get her wings and join this elite but the price is higher than she could have imagined. So why then does she throw it all away?
Feel the exhilaration and terror of flight — over vertiginous skyscrapers, into wild storms and across hypnotic wilderness — in this beautiful and daringly imaginative novel that explores the limits of self-transformation.
Claire Corbett’s novel When We Have Wings was published by Allen & Unwin in 2011. It was shortlisted for the 2012 Barbara Jefferis Award and for the 2012 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction and is published overseas. Her essay The Last Space Waltz? was shortlisted for the 2012 ABR CAL Essay Prize. She has been awarded a writer’s residency at Ledig House in upstate New York in 2014. Claire Corbett writes for The Monthly magazine. She is writing her second novel for Allen & Unwin and is co-facilitator of SMSA’s Writing Master Classes along with Tom Keneally.
Join Claire Corbett, co-facilitator with Tom Keneally of SMSA’s Writing Master Classes, as she talks about and reads from her book When We Have Wings, a crime novel set in a fantastic future.
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