The Lost Child
Text Publishing, $29.99 pb, 304 pp, 9781922147783
Fiction
The Lost Child
by Carol Middleton •
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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