โ Riley Hart
๐ Fiction
๐
2020
๐ Riley Hart
๐ English
โ 128 KB
๐ 1 views
Beautiful and Terrible Things
โฆ LIBER โฆ
A Lovely and Terrible Thing
โ Scribed by Chris Womersley
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan Australia;Picador
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-AU
- Weight
- 137 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1760554812
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Around you the world is swirling - you pass through a submerged town; the bakery, a wheelbarrow, a bike floating on its side on the main street, its steeples and trees barely visible through the thick water.
In the distance the wreck of the gunship HMS Elizabeth lolls on a sandbank a couple of miles from the shore. Oil slicks the canals of the capital and even now in the midst of the bombing, the old men still tell tales of mermaids in the shallows.
A pool, empty of water save for a brackish puddle at one end that has escaped the summer heat. A mess of fine bones and hanks of fur - the remains of mice or possums that have tumbled in, lured perhaps by the water. Two boys stand by its edge, watching a stolen bracelet flash through the humid air into the deep end.
In bestselling author Chris Womersley's first short fiction collection, twenty macabre and deliciously enjoyable tales linked by the trickle of water that runs through them all will keep readers...
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