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Rift by Libby Hathorn & Killing Darcy by Melissa Lucashenko

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June 1998, no. 201

Rift by Libby Hathorn

Hodder Headline, $14.95 pb, 220 pp

Killing Darcy by Melissa Lucashenko

UQP, $12.95 pb, 230 pp

Rift by Libby Hathorn & Killing Darcy by Melissa Lucashenko

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June 1998, no. 201

I am sitting at my home desk high up in the mountains overlooking the border ranges to New South Wales and then to the left, the strip of highrise, the Gold Coast, and the sea beyond. Hathorn and Lucashenko have both set their recent youth novels in an imaginary location not far from me. The sea and the hinterland is a territory I am beginning to know well and I have enjoyed exploring it a little further in my reading.

Libby Hathorn, well known for her award-winning but bleak children’s picture book Way Home has once again explored the darkness of humanity. I found it chilling.

Tess Brady reviews 'Rift' by Libby Hathorn and 'Killing Darcy' by Melissa Lucashenko

Rift

by Libby Hathorn

Hodder Headline, $14.95 pb, 220 pp

Killing Darcy

by Melissa Lucashenko

UQP, $12.95 pb, 230 pp

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