This is a Miles Franklin WInner to add to my 2019 Reading Challenge. It certainly lives up to the status of winner and depicts Australia in beautiful language.
From the book cover:
“His father dead by fire and his mother plagued by demons of her own, William is cast upon the charity of his unknown uncle – an embittered old man encamped in the ruins of a once great station homestead, Kuran House. It’s a baffling and sinister new world for the boy, a place of decay and secret histories.
William’s uncle is obsessed by a long life of decline and by a dark quest for revival, his mother is desperate for a wealth and security she has never known, and all their hopes it seems come to rest upon his young shoulders. But as the past and present of Kuran Station unravel and merge together, the price of that inheritance may prove to be the downfall of them all.”
I loved how so many aspects of Australian history were woven into the story. I will be searching out other books by Andrew McGahan who had written many books before his untimely death from pancreatic cancer.
