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This is a lovely package, beautifully presented.
In terms of the story what resonated most was the powerful symbolic realm of the forest, and the sense of an Australian girl trying to translate her intimate experience of a foreign landscape and the connectedness of all living things, when she is not connected to her own family. I admired Saliba's restraint, and the novel has lingered with me in a way it might not have if the story was more tightly observed. However I must admit to some frustrati ...more
In terms of the story what resonated most was the powerful symbolic realm of the forest, and the sense of an Australian girl trying to translate her intimate experience of a foreign landscape and the connectedness of all living things, when she is not connected to her own family. I admired Saliba's restraint, and the novel has lingered with me in a way it might not have if the story was more tightly observed. However I must admit to some frustrati ...more
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