After the Fire, A Still Small Voice
After the Fire, A Still Small Voice Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. Full...
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After the Fire, A Still Small Voice Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780099535836 (0099535831)
Publish date: 2010
Publisher: Vintage Books
Pages no: 296
Edition language: English
What can I say about a book that had me gripped in alternate chapters and skimming the text in the others? Leon's story was the one I wanted more of and the one I couldn't wait to read. Frank's story is, to me, bit more boring and dull with predictable experiences of the "angry young man". When this...
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Quite an ambitious debut novel for this Australian writer. I like her prose style and her ability to create a sense of atmosphere in the story. Remember that old saying about the sins of the fathers being visited upon the children? I think this story shows how the wounds of the fathers are passed ...