***Note: this review assumes that you've read the book.*** One-sentence summary: Beautiful prose, setting, and characterization, plus a lovely portrayal of the inner life of children, but I'm not sure the coming-of-age themes are as deep as they hope they're being. This book is deliberately a bi...
This novel takes place in 1967, in Australia where eleven girls and their teacher and a man named Morgan take an impromptu field trip to a cave to see paintings supposedly done by the aborigines. Their girls come back, their teacher disappears. This book and its haunting tone drew me in, the eleven ...