The crying place / Lia Hills.
Publication details: Sydney : Allen & Unwin, 2017.Description: 474 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760293710 :
- Friends -- Death -- Fiction
- Grieve -- Fiction
- Best friends -- Death -- Fiction
- Country life -- Australia -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Australia -- Fiction
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Death -- Investigation -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Aboriginal Australians -- Fiction
- Australia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
- Australian
- A823.4 23
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | HIL | Available | 065969 |
After years of travelling, Saul is trying to settle down. But one night he receives the devastating news of the death of his oldest friend, Jed, recently returned from working in a remote Aboriginal community. Saul's discovery in Jed's belongings of a photo of a woman convinces him that she may hold the answers to Jed's fate. So he heads out on a journey into the heart of the Australian desert to find the truth, setting in motion a powerful story about the landscapes that shape us and the ghosts that lay their claim. The Crying Place is a haunting, luminous novel about love, country, and the varied ways in which we grieve. In its unflinching portrayal of the borderlands where worlds come together, and the past and present overlap, it speaks of the places and moments that bind us. The myths that draw us in and, ultimately, the ways in which we find our way home.