logo
Wrong email address or username
Wrong email address or username
Incorrect verification code
Fly Away Peter - David Malouf
Fly Away Peter
by: (author)
2.45 55
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to... show more
For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment.

Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.
show less
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780099273820 (0099273829)
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 134
Edition language: English
Bookstores:
Community Reviews
Sarah's Library
Sarah's Library rated it
2.0 Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
20/09 - Had to read this for year 12 English and I didn't really understand it and therefore didn't enjoy it. I find both situations strange as I am usually drawn to Australian war stories, fiction and non-fiction. Maybe it deserves a re-read with my older, more mature brain...one day. 14/4/16 -...
Sarah's Library
Sarah's Library rated it
2.0 Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
20/09 - Had to read this for year 12 English and I didn't really understand it and therefore didn't enjoy it. I find both situations strange as I am usually drawn to Australian war stories, fiction and non-fiction. Maybe it deserves a re-read with my older, more mature brain...one day.
Sarah's Library
Sarah's Library rated it
2.5 Fly Away Peter by David Malouf
20/09 - Had to read this for year 12 English and I didn't really understand it and therefore didn't enjoy it. I find both situations strange as I am usually drawn to Australian war stories, fiction and non-fiction. Maybe it deserves a re-read with my older, more mature brain...one day.
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd
Philosophical Musings of a Book Nerd rated it
1.5 A rant about literature
To be honest with you I thought this novel was little more than a load of existentialist rubbish. I have only read two of Malouf's novels, this one and the one about Ovid being exiled to the edge of the Roman Empire. It seems as if there is something in common with these two novels. Ovid is exiled f...
Surface Tension
Surface Tension rated it
3.0
Reading this one for my creative writing class
Other editions (7)
Books by David Malouf
On shelves
Share this Book
Need help?