by David Malouf
In The Conversations at Curlow Creek, two strangers spend the night talking. One, an outlaw, is to be hanged at dawn. The other is the police officer who has been sent to supervise the hanging. As the night wears on, the two men share memories and uncover unlikely connections between their lives. Th...
It is 1827 in a remote part of Australia. A criminal and the man sent to hang him talk of their past and …..Mostly the story is of Michael Adair and Fergus Connellan, their history in Ireland and the different paths their lives have taken, and love yearned for and lost. In early 19th century Ireland...