![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘If Hartnett was published in the era before young-adult fiction and I was casting about for comparisons, then the name Harper Lee wouldn’t be a bad call.’ Sunday Age ‘In its evocation of the adult world seen through the eyes of a child, this book has the feel of the classic To Kill a Mockingbird … A deep, and deeply moving, novel.’ The Guardian (UK) As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside. Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child’s clear eyes her family’s struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year ![]()
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