At the heart of this long and absorbing novel is the Great Serpent which is how the Native Australian Brippoki sees the River Thames. Bought to Victorian London as part of a cricket team, he has another motive for being here, to research the life of a man transported to Australia nearly 80 years earlier. There is marvellous counterpointing of Aboriginal life against the seething, crowded and dirty world of London in the 1860’s, The length of the novel gives Ed Hillyer the space to fill out historical detail creating a very strong sense of time and place.
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May 1868 - an Aboriginal Australian cricket team begins a tour of England. One of the players is on a quest to explore his Truth, or Dreaming. Sarah Larkin's quiet routine, divided between her father's sick room and the British Library, takes on a completely new aspect when King Cole, aka Brippoki, arrives unannounced on her doorstep, requesting her help.
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May 1868 - an Aboriginal Australian cricket team begins a tour of England. One of the players is on a quest to explore his Truth, or Dreaming.
The Clay Dreaming features in the following genres: Historical Fiction, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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The Clay Dreaming was written by Ed Hillyer and published by Myriad Editions
The Clay Dreaming has 542 pages
