Hearing Maud

*Shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2020: Non-Fiction* Hearing Maud: A Journey for a Voice is a work of creative non-fiction that details the author'sexperiences of deafness after losing most of her hearing at age four. It charts how, as shegrew up, she was estranged from people and turned to reading and writing for solace,eventually establishing a career as a writer. Central to her narrative is the story of Maud Praed, the deaf daughter of 19th centuryQueensland expatriate nov