Elemental

Author: Amanda Curtin

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  • : 24.99 AUD
  • : 9781742589169
  • : UWA Publishing
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  • : November 2016
  • : 198mm X 128mm
  • : Australia
  • : 24.99
  • : December 2016
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Barcode 9781742589169
9781742589169

Description

Nearing the end of her life, Meggie Tulloch takes up her pen to write a story for her granddaughter, Laura. It begins in the first years of the 20th century, in a place where the howling winds spin salt and sleet, sucked up from the ice floes. A place where lives are ruled by men, and men by the witchy sea. A place where the only thing lower than a girl in the order of things is a clever girl with accursed red hair. A place schooled in keeping secrets. Thirty years after her grandmother's death, Laura receives her notebooks and discovers the painful past that Meggie spent a lifetime trying to forget. Moving from the north-east of Scotland to the Shetland Isles to Fremantle, Australia, Elemental is a novel about the life you make from the life you are given. It is a novel about superstition and friendship, the nature of heroism and sacrifice, women's work, love, and family.