"Stark and painful yet deeply and beautifully detailed, this novel amplifies the difficulties of survival in the wilderness, whether human or animal."
Memorable and compelling, this novel quietly settles into thoughts and feelings even as it fiercely and passionately protects both its time and place. We are never told but it is likely to be 19th century Tasmania as the setting, nature is exquisitely described and both the transplanted puma and people who attempt to tame the land are out of place.
The original inhabitants live side by side with nature, highlighting the interlopers. Twins Iris and Floyd twisted their way into my heart with their strength and fragility. Their decisions made out of a need to escape their past, and their kinship and vulnerability made me positively ache. For its beauty and the fact that the ending will haunt me, I just had to add this as both a LoveReading Star Book and Liz Pick of the month. Dusk is a soul-searing, wild, stunning novel I can highly recommend.
An explosive novel of the wild, and the lengths humans will go to control it
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An explosive novel of the wild, and the lengths humans will go to control itThe distant highlands, covered in snow and strewn with ancient bones, are an alien home for a puma from South America. But when Dusk escapes her captors, reports of killing sprees of sheep and shepherds are not long to follow.The highlands are no less alien to twins Iris and Floyd, whose family history renders them outcasts.
Dusk features in the following genres: Audiobooks of the Month, Book Club Recommendations, Liz Robinson's Picks of the Month, Recommendations, Star Books, Family Drama, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Narrative theme: Journeys and voyages, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Narrative theme: Environmental issues / the natural world
Paperback, Hardback, Audiobook. £15.29, down from the £16.99 cover price. In Stock.
Dusk was written by Robbie Arnott and published by Chatto & Windus an imprint of Random House
Dusk has 224 pages
£15.29, reduced from £16.99. In Stock.
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