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The Sun Walks Down

By: Fiona McFarlane
Narrated by: Emma Jones
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About this listen

A masterful novel by the prize-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places, an epic tale of revelation, history, myth, love and art.

In September 1883, a small town in the South Australian outback huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the entire community is caught up in the search for him. As they scour the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly - newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen - confront their relationships, both with one another and with the ancient, impervious landscape they inhabit. The colonial Australia of The Sun Walks Down is unfamiliar, multicultural, and noisy with opinions, arguments, longings and terrors. It's haunted by many gods - the sun among them, rising and falling on each day in which Denny could be found, or lost forever.

©2022 Fiona McFarlane (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural

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Critic reviews

'Brilliant, fresh and compulsively readable. It is marvellous. I loved it from start to finish' Ann Patchett

'Gorgeous storytelling and superb characters . . . magnificent' Michelle de Kretser
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I felt as if i had been to Flinders Range after reading this and i have never been out of Europe

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Relaxing book, Sounds a bit like a poem. The narrator's voice is gentle but a bit flat. The story is mysterious, light in places but a little too scattered. Not sure we needed to know so much about the camels/ travelling people/ the grandparents...for instance. I got a bit confused with all the daughters. Cici was the most memorable daughter as well as the vicar and the boy and the artists.

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