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The Lost Child

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April 2014, no. 360

The Lost Child by Suzanne McCourt

Text Publishing, $29.99 pb, 304 pp, 9781922147783

The Lost Child

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April 2014, no. 360

This début novel by Melbourne writer Suzanne McCourt is a coming-of-age story set in the wild coastal landscape of the Coorong in the 1950s. Writing from the point of view of a child, McCourt captures the heightened sensibility of her narrator, Sylvie, to portray a family in devastating close-up and a natural world teeming with smells and sounds and sights.

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