TY  - BOOK
AU  - Serong,Jock
AU  - Barnard,Simon
TI  - The burning island
SN  - 9781922330086
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - Text Publishing Company
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - Revenge
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Quests (Expeditions)
KW  - Single women
KW  - Parent and adult child
KW  - Colonists
KW  - fast
KW  - Ocean travel
KW  - Parent and child
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Children of alcoholics
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Sydney (N.S.W.)
KW  - History
KW  - Australia
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Australian
KW  - Australian stories
KW  - Adult fiction
KW  - Print
KW  - 21st century
KW  - local
KW  - lcgft
N2  - 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
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