The Butterfly Man is the first in Allen & Unwin's beautiful newly designed series of Heather's novels. The River Wife (originally published in 2009) will be published in May 2025, White Heart (1999) in June 2025, The Museum of Modern Love (2016) in July 2025) and Bruny (2019) in August 2025. Heather's new novel will be released in Australia in October 2025 and the US & UK in 2026.
'Today I was dangerous. I wanted to confess. I wanted to tell her stories I had held back all these years.' The Butterfly Man
In 1974 Lord Lucan disappeared after the murder of the family nanny in London’s Belgravia. He has never (officially) been seen again. Based on that event, The Butterfly Man is a novel about coming to terms with the past when there is no future in sight. Winner of the Davitt Award for best crime fiction novel by an Australian woman in 2006, The Butterfly Man is much more than a novel about a crime. Set on Hobart’s Mt Wellington, here is a year in the life of a man who has discovered unexpected love and a sense wonder, but can never find forgiveness.
Winner of the Davitt Award 2006
Short-listed for the 2006 Nita B Kibble Award
Long-listed for the 2007 IMPAC Awards in Ireland
