The Shadow Year
Hachette Australia, $29.99 pb, 405 pp, 9780733630507
The Shadow Year by Hannah Richell
Shadows, shallows, tides, secrets, aching hearts, and tragedy. ‘The love and the grief and the joy and the pain and all the emotion’ – oh the emotion – in Hannah Richell’s new novel, centred around a secluded lake, can leave one feeling thoroughly water-logged. Richell’s close follow-up to Secrets of the Tides (2012) uses similar techniques to depict another troubled family that must confront secrets from its past.
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The Shadow Year
by Hannah Richell
Hachette Australia, $29.99 pb, 405 pp, 9780733630507
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