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Days of Innocence and Wonder
- Narrated by: Gemma Carfi
- Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
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Days of Innocence and Wonder
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Publisher's Summary
When someone is taken away, what is left behind?
All her life, Till has lived in the shadow of the abduction of a childhood friend and her tormented wondering about whether she could have stopped it.
When Till, now twenty-three, senses danger approaching again, she flees her past and the hovering presence of her fearful parents. In Wirowie, a town on its knees, she stops and slowly begins creating a new life and home. But there is something menacing here too. Till must decide whether she can finally face down, even pursue, the darkness - or whether she'll flee once more and never stop running.
Both a reckoning with fear and loss, and a recognition of the power of belonging, Days of Innocence and Wonder is a richly textured, deeply felt new novel from one of Australia's finest writers.
Critic Reviews
'Not a wasted word, not an observation missed' Jock Serong
'in full possession of her powers, as asseured and ambitious as Barbara Kingsolver or Isabel Allende' Australian Book Review
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- Anonymous User
- 13-03-2024
A beautifully written story with characters that you feel you come to know.
A beautifully written, evocative story. There is much trauma in this book, but much that is uplifting as well.
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- Mundayk
- 21-12-2023
Uplifting at times, frustrating for other times...
While this was a beautifully written story and the narrator really helped bring the story to life it was only really the last few hours of the book where anything seemed to happen. This book touches on some difficult topics such as trauma and DV and while the descriptions of landscapes really paints a picture of Wirowie... following Tills journey of "healing" is at times uplifting but mostly frustrating because I really don't see how people didn't notice what was happening in a small town when it took them little time to notice Till arriving... there's not much mystery here, as you'll know who the baddie is from almost the start of the book but then this story is more about the journey of healing rather than the last few hours (which was the only interesting part for me) so overall a good story but probably not the style of story and writting I would normally enjoy
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