The Leaves, Author Jacqueline Rule

The Leaves is a meditation on loss, female friendship, motherhood and the role of the state.  

Faith and Evelyn are close friends, neighbours, and single mothers of Luke and of Mitch – and both bear the scars of the trauma of colonisation and the Stolen Generations. 

When Faith dies unexpectedly, Luke’s childhood is severed into a ‘before’ and ‘after’ and a chain of catastrophic events is unleashed that will alter the course of his life. Navigating the upheaval of a broken foster system (that serves as a pipeline to poverty and incarceration in ‘juvie’), 

 The Leaves raises larger questions about a society that is yet to take responsibility for its own historical crimes.  

Author Dr Jacqueline Rule holds a PhD in English from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in English from Goldsmiths College, University of London (International Programme) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). The Leaves is her debut novel. To connect Jacqueline Rule ... www.jacquelinerule.com.au