The Curlew's Eye

Manton, Karen

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Greta's partner Joel grew up with five brother's and a sister in a feisty household on an isolated NT property. But he doesn't talk about those days - not about the deaths of his sister and mother, nor the origin of the scars that snake around his body. Now many years later, he returns with Greta and their three young boys to prepare the place for sale. The boys are quick to settle in, and Joel seems preoccupied with work, but Greta has a growing sense of unease, struggling in the build-up's oppressive heat and living in the shadow of the old burnt-out family home. She knows she's a stranger in this uncanny place, with its eerie and alluring landscape, a hostile neighbour and a toxic dam whose clear waters belie its poison. And then there's the mysterious girl living rough whom Greta tries to befriend. Determined to make sense of it all. Greta is drawn into Joel's unspoken past and confronted by her own. Before long, the curlew's haunting cry will call her to face the secrets she and Joel can no longer outrun.