Big River Little Fish
A Book Club, Young Adult book. It is the 1950s, and for a boy who was...
Big River, Little Fish is the highly anticipated second novel from Belinda Jeffrey. Set in South Australia during the 1956 Murray River flood, it tells the story of Tom Downs, a boy trapped between his way of reading the world and the world's way of seeing him. He lives in the town but likes it best down by Old Mother Murray, talking to his best friend, Hannah, and helping the outcasts who live in the shacks on her banks. But there's a big river coming and Tom feels like everything he loves and understands might be swept away and lost.From the moment he was born tail first – the moment of his mother's death – time has held Tom the wrong way round, like he's caught inside a fractured story. But the thing about the river rising, the thing that takes Tom by surprise, is not what Old Mother takes away, but who she brings back. Big River, Little Fish is a compelling tale of a...
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- Pages: 276 pages
- ISBN: / 9780702238
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It is the 1950s, and for a boy who was born 'out of wedlock', to a mother that died at his birth, was found by an aboriginal man, grows up with loving but austere foster parents, and has dyslexia - well, let say that Tom has a hard life.Belinda Jeffrey coaxes this story along, teases out the all the little details, until you are totally... This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. The sort of book where I felt the author failed to understand the unwritten contract between reader and writer. The writing is brilliant and indeed I fully expect this story to become an Australian 'classic'. I just don't like the authorial deception needed... I couldn't put this one down. A fantastic read.
