South of Darkness
Macmillan, $39.99 hb, 375 pp
Fiction
South of Darkness by John Marsden
by Ruth Starke •
It is sobering to think that the thousands of teenagers who in 1987 eagerly devoured John Marsden’s first novel, So Much To Tell You, and sent it and the author spinning into bestsellerdom are now in their forties – and as such, the target readership for his first adult novel, South of Darkness, a transportation saga that covers some familiar ground with a light tread.
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