Red

From award-winning writer & journalist Felicity McLean comes Red, a spirited & striking contemporary retelling of the Ned Kelly story

It's the early 1990s & Ruby 'Red' McCoy dreams about one day leaving her weatherboard house on the Central Coast of New South Wales, where her best friend, Stevie, is loose with the truth, & her dad, Sid, is always on the wrong side of the law. But wild, whip-smart Red can't stay out of trouble to save her life, & Sid's latest hustle is more harebrained than usual. Meanwhile, Sergeant Trevor Healy seems to have a vendetta against every generation of the McCoys.

Told in Ruby's vivid, inimitable voice, Red is part True Grit, part Blue Murder. It's a story of police persecution. Of dodgy deals & even dodgier cars. And of a family history that refuses to stay in the past. A sharp, provocative & savagely funny novel.

Felicity McLean's debut novel, The Van Apfel Girls are Gone, has been published in more than half a dozen countries. It was a Barnes & Noble 'Discover Great New Writers' pick in the US, & was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards, & longlisted for the UK's Dagger Awards, & the Davitt.

Her book, Body Lengths, co-written with Olympian Leisel Jones, was Apple Books 'Best Biography of 2015' & won the 2016 Australian Book Industry Awards 'Reader's Choice' for Small Publisher Adult Book of the Year.