Storyland

In 1796 the cabin boy Will Martin, still a youngster, sails south from Sydney Cove with Matthew Flinders and Mr Bass in the little Tom Thumb, bound for the Illawarra. His voyage begins a sequence of stories rooted in the country around Lake Illawarra over four hundred years: Hawker, a former convict driven to an act of savage cruelty; Lola, farming dairy cattle with her siblings in 1900 when they are wrongly suspected of a crime; Bel, whose 1998 rafting outing with friends erupts into violence; and Nada, who in 2033 watches her world begin to unravel. All of them are tied to one stretch of land and water, and to one another through family, memory and ownership.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Genres

Historical, Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

Australia, 1796–2033

First published

2017

Author's age

59 when first published

ISBN

9781460752326 (Fourth Estate, Australia)