The last summer of Ada Bloom / Martine Murray (author).
Publication details: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2018.Description: 272 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 1925498719
- 9781925410938
- 1925410935
- 9781925498714
- Man-woman relationships -- Fiction
- Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
- Family secrets -- Fiction
- Australian fiction
- Families -- Fiction
- Dysfunctional families -- Fiction
- Secrecy -- Fiction
- Children -- Fiction
- Marital conflict -- Fiction
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction
- Children
- Dysfunctional families
- Marital conflict
- Secrecy
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations)
- Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction
- Victoria -- Melbourne
- 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 | MUR | Available | 068391 |
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In a small country town during one long, hot summer, the Bloom family begins to unravel. Marital secrets, new and long-hidden, surface - with devastating effect. Martha is straining against the confines of her life, lost in regret for what might have been, when an old flame shows up. In turn, her husband, Mike, becomes frustrated with his increasingly distant wife. While teenagers Tilly and Ben are about to step out into the world, nine-year-old Ada is holding onto a childhood that will soon be lost to her. When Ada discovers an abandoned well beneath a rusting windmill, she is drawn to its darkness and danger. And when she witnesses a shocking and confusing event, the well's foreboding looms large in her mind - a driving force as events lead inexorably towards tragedy.