The Labyrinth

Erica Marsden's son Daniel, a painter, is serving a sentence for causing a death through negligence. Overwhelmed by grief, Erica breaks contact with everyone she knows and buys a dilapidated beach shack in a tiny settlement on the coast of southern New South Wales, a short drive from the jail where Daniel will not speak to her. She brings with her memories of her aloof father, a psychiatrist who ran an asylum with a labyrinth in its grounds, of the mother who walked out, and of an estranged brother. Soon she is consumed by the idea of making a labyrinth of her own beside the sea. She cannot do it alone: she needs a wandering stonemason named Jurko, a neighbour who never waves back and an architect in town who brushed her off, and so she must learn to trust and confront what she has done.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

256 pages in the original

Genres

Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia

First published

2020

Author's age

73 when first published

ISBN

9781922330109 (Text Publishing, Australia)

9781922458469 (Text Publishing, Australia)

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