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Like Fleebo, I was a bit wary of this book, due to the title: it definitely suggested a fairly heavy-going polemical rant. However, this was a wonderful book. It is about atonement and apologies, and it is about blackfella and whitefella relationships, but it's on a very human and intimate level, dealing with Perdita and Mary's relationship.Perdita is the unexpected child from two english people who are (for all the wrong reasons) living outside of Broome in the lead-up to world war 2. And Mary is the convent-educated native girl who looks after her. They consider themselves sisters, and this book is about their friendship. While Mary is part of the stolen generation, this is a mere small part of the book, just something to reflect upon, not the whole reason for the book to exist. And this is also the story of Perdita and her mother, the not-really-there Stella. And the story of the murder of Perdita's father, Nicholas. (Hey, I'm not giving anything away there, it starts the book!) The murder is the weak part of this book for me, because it's all supposed to be suspicious about who killed Nicholas, but I got it from the start. The red herrings were just never obvious, I don't think I noticed one of them, so when we find out who was the murderer, I was surprised that all the characters had it wrong. Oh well. Maybe I've just read too many books with murders at the beginning, and the rest of the book spent finding out whodunnit. I'm getting to be an expert! But it was beautifully written, on a number of occasions (the ultimate ending in particular) had me staring out of bus windows, insisting that I wasn't crying, no, I just had something in my eye, that's all. It's a great slice of Australian history I knew nothing about (others might; maybe I just daydreamed through all my history lessons back in school), and I am recommending it far and wide to everyone and anyone who will listen. Although one word of warning: I was reading at the same time The Book Thief which also concerns a young girl during world war 2. Every now and then I got totally confused by muddling up the families. :) Jubby reckons she's still up for this one, so I'll contact her on Sunday, and if she's still sure she wants a book with a baby due any day now, I'll pop it in the post to her on Monday. Thanks for the great read, Fleebo! |
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Released 3 yrs ago (8/4/2008 UTC) at Sydney, New South Wales Australia CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 3 yrs ago (12/6/2008 UTC) at Port Melbourne, Victoria Australia CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 3 yrs ago (4/5/2009 UTC) at Melbourne, a controlled release -- Controlled Releases CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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Released 2 yrs ago (6/25/2009 UTC) at Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia CONTROLLED RELEASE NOTES:
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