The burning island /
Serong, Jock,
The burning island / Jock Serong ; map by Simon Barnard. - Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2020. - 350 pages : map ; 24 cm. - Grayling Family ; 2 .
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she knows. Something obsessive. Something to do with a man who bested him thirty-three years ago. Then Srinivas, another figure from that dark past, offers Joshua Grayling the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis. Eliza is horrified. The plan entails a sea voyage far to the south and an uncertain, possibly violent, outcome. Out of the question for an elderly man-insanity for a helpless drunkard who also happens to be blind. Unable to dissuade her father from his mad quest, Eliza begins to understand she may be forced to go with him. Then she sees the ship they will be sailing on. And in that instant, the voyage of the Moonbird becomes Eliza's mission too.
Winner 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize.
9781922330086
1800-1899
Historical fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Quests (Expeditions)--Fiction.
Single women--Fiction.
Parent and adult child--Fiction.
Colonists.
Ocean travel.
Parent and child.
Social conditions.
Australian fiction.
Children of alcoholics--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Parent and child--Fiction.
Colonists--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Ocean travel--Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--Fiction.
Australia.
Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
Australia--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
Australian
Australian stories--Print --Adult fiction
Historical fiction
Australian fiction--21st century
Australian stories--Print --Adult fiction
Historical fiction
Australian fiction
Australian stories--Print --Adult fiction
Historical fiction
Australian fiction
Australian fiction--21st century
Australian fiction--21st century
Historical fiction.
Australian fiction--21st century.
Fiction.
Australian fiction
Historical fiction.
A823.4
The burning island / Jock Serong ; map by Simon Barnard. - Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing Company, 2020. - 350 pages : map ; 24 cm. - Grayling Family ; 2 .
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she knows. Something obsessive. Something to do with a man who bested him thirty-three years ago. Then Srinivas, another figure from that dark past, offers Joshua Grayling the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis. Eliza is horrified. The plan entails a sea voyage far to the south and an uncertain, possibly violent, outcome. Out of the question for an elderly man-insanity for a helpless drunkard who also happens to be blind. Unable to dissuade her father from his mad quest, Eliza begins to understand she may be forced to go with him. Then she sees the ship they will be sailing on. And in that instant, the voyage of the Moonbird becomes Eliza's mission too.
Winner 2021 ARA Historical Novel Prize.
9781922330086
1800-1899
Historical fiction.
Revenge--Fiction.
Quests (Expeditions)--Fiction.
Single women--Fiction.
Parent and adult child--Fiction.
Colonists.
Ocean travel.
Parent and child.
Social conditions.
Australian fiction.
Children of alcoholics--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Parent and child--Fiction.
Colonists--Fiction.
Fathers and daughters--Fiction.
Ocean travel--Fiction.
Sydney (N.S.W.)--History--Fiction.
Australia.
Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
Australia--Social conditions--19th century--Fiction.
Australian
Australian stories--Print --Adult fiction
Historical fiction
Australian fiction--21st century
Australian stories--Print --Adult fiction
Historical fiction
Australian fiction
Australian stories--Print --Adult fiction
Historical fiction
Australian fiction
Australian fiction--21st century
Australian fiction--21st century
Historical fiction.
Australian fiction--21st century.
Fiction.
Australian fiction
Historical fiction.
A823.4
