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  • The Sun Walks Down

  • By: Fiona McFarlane
  • Narrated by: Emma Jones
  • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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By: Fiona McFarlane
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Summary

A masterful novel by the prize-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places, an epic tale of revelation, history, myth, love and art.

In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly - newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen - confront their relationships, both with one another and with the ancient, impervious landscape they inhabit. The colonial Australia of The Sun Walks Down is unfamiliar, multicultural, and noisy with opinions, arguments, longings and terrors. It's haunted by many gods - the sun among them, rising and falling on each day in which Denny could be found, or lost forever.
©2022 Fiona McFarlane (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Historical Fiction Fiction
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'Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. It is marvellous. I loved it from start to finish' Ann Patchett

'Gorgeous storytelling and superb characters . . . magnificent' Michelle de Kretser

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atmospheric

I felt as if i had been to Flinders Range after reading this and i have never been out of Europe

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