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Dark, fast-paced, and gripping this mesmerizing debut novel will be the defining definition of Australian noir. From the first line spoken, “If the dirt could speak, whose story would it tell?”, to the last line, “She said: I am here.”, the tender carefully affectionate narration by a dead baby of her mother’s life was a risky chance by the author may make the reader uncomfortable at first but so surprised me by how much empathy I had for the mother, the story’s main protagonist. It is 1921 and
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Just read this for the second time, as the first reading was more than 10 years ago. The style of writing is a lot like Cormac McCarthy and I'm not as enamored with the story as I first was. 😑
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Apr 22, 2014
Suzanne
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Chantal
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Deedee
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