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Dianne Dempsey

Dianne Dempsey reviews 'The Different World of Fin Starling' by Elizabeth Stead

March 2004, no. 259 01 March 2004
Wagner’s Creek is a rundown seaside village full of fibro shacks, rubbish and the ‘dirt poor’: ‘Their boredom and despair was as high as the dry grass in their yards and as deep as the ruts in the road – and their hearts seemed as broken as their hanging gates and peeling fences.’ Elizabeth Stead’s other novel, The Fishcastle (2000), was also set in a seaside village where, as in Wag ... (read more)