The curlew's eye / Karen Manton.
Publication details: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2021.Description: 344 pages : map ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781760879518
- 1760879517
- Domestic fiction
- Gothic fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Recollection (Psychology) -- Fiction
- Homecoming -- Fiction
- Families
- Homecoming
- Recollection (Psychology)
- Secrecy
- Australian fiction
- Australian fiction
- Grief -- Fiction
- Country life -- Australia -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Ranches -- Northern Territory -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Northern Territory -- Fiction
- AUS fiction (Northern Territory)
- [GENRE] -- Adult fiction -- Print
- Domestic fiction
- Gothic fiction
- Mystery fiction.
- Australian fiction -- 21st century
- Psychological fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction).
- Domestic fiction.
- Thrillers (Fiction).
- Psychological fiction.
- Fiction.
- Gothic fiction.
- Australian fiction
- Domestic fiction.
- Gothic fiction.
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Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | MAN | Available | 063192 |
"You can't outrun your past" --Cover.
Greta's partner Joel grew up with five brothers and a sister in a feisty household on an isolated NT property. But he doesn't talk about those days - not the deaths of his sister and mother, nor the origin of the scars that snake around his body. Now, many years later, he returns with Greta and their three young boys to prepare the place for sale. The boys are quick to settle in, and Joel seems preoccupied with work, but Greta has a growing sense of unease, struggling in the build-up's oppressive heat and living in the shadow of the old, burned-out family home. She knows she's a stranger in this uncanny place, with its eerie and alluring landscape, hostile neighbour, and a toxic dam whose clear waters belie its poison. And then there's the mysterious girl living rough whom Greta tries to befriend. Determined to make sense of it all, Greta is drawn into Joel's unspoken past and confronted by her own. Before long the curlew's haunting cry will call her to face the secrets she and Joel can no longer outrun.