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Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside.
Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside.
A haunting novel from the author of The Silver Donkey.
Sonya Hartnett is the internationally acclaimed author of several
award-winning novels, including Of a Boy, which won The Age Book of
the Year and was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award. Her work
has been published internationally with editions available in the
UK, US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Norway and Denmark.
In 2008 Sonya was the recipient of The Astrid Lindgren Memorial
Award. The prize is awarded to authors, illustrators, narrators and
promoters of reading whose work reflects the spirit of Astrid
Lindgren. It is the first time this award has gone to an
Australian.
Sonya lives in Melbourne. She has a dog named Shilo and a cat named
Marcus. Melissa Eccleston has appeared in various theatre
productions in Australia and Ireland. Television appearances
include SeaChange, Blue Heelers and The Bill. Her film credits
include Dead Letter Office and several short films in Melbourne and
Dublin and voiceovers for television and radio. Melissa is a
writer, singer and Celtic storyteller.
"A beautiful and complex coming-of-age story."
*Booklist*
"Dark, unusual, familiar and slightly miraculous."
*Kirkus Reviews*
"A unique and fascinating experience."
*School Library Journal*
In a starred review, PW wrote, "Set in the harsh mining outback of Australia during the Depression, this startling coming-of-age story combines the narrator's grindingly realistic account of a family mired in poverty with a more surreal tale of her younger brother, gifted with an uncanny ability to dig through the earth and create his own subterranean world." Ages 14-up. (Sept.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.
"A beautiful and complex coming-of-age story." -- Booklist
"Dark, unusual, familiar and slightly miraculous." -- Kirkus
Reviews
"A unique and fascinating experience." -- School Library Journal
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