Edenglassie (2023) is the 7th novel by acclaimed Aboriginal Australian writer Melissa Lucashenko.

The story is set in two time periods, 2024 and 1854.

At the heart of 1854 – and along with colonial violence – are two adoptees.

Young Mulanyin, a Yugambeh man, has been adopted in the First Nations system.

Nita has been adopted by the Petrie family. Her Aboriginal family was murdered and the tiny child sold first to a sawyer and then Grandfather Petrie “bought her freedom for two pounds”.

Nita has been well trained as a servant to the Petrie family and Mary Petrie is reluctant to have Nita leave them to live with Mulanyin because, Nita says, Mary Petrie knows she will be “difficult to replace” (169).