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Corrie Hosking

Corrie Hosking reviews 'Death of a Whaler' by Nerida Newton

November 2006, no. 286 01 November 2006
Death of a Whaler considers the grand themes of death, grief, the quest for meaning and the potential for reawakening. Just days before the Byron Bay whalers are made redundant in 1962, lopsided Flinch is involved in an accident and literally frozen. It is not only when he meets Karma, himself troubled by the past, that Flinch reluctantly begins the trial of healing. ... (read more)