Angela MacGregor has lived a lifetime of obsessions. In middle age she began to find some peace from those obsessions in her self-imposed exile within the mountain country within the Hunter Valley. That peace is shattered when a bushfire threatens to destroy the whole lot and everybody she has come to love. The fire forces Angela not to only leave her home, but to come to terms with her literary obsessions and the cost she has paid building after which losing her academic career. The past is all the time present on this debut novel by Glenn Stuart Beatty. There may be Angela’s past, lost within the land of words and ideas and There may be the past contained within the secrets of a small community forced to face its buried truths uncovered by the ashes of a devastating bushfire and ghosts in Angela’s head.
Category: Literature and Fiction
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