The Voices - Hardcover

Elderkin, Susan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0802117570 ISBN 13: 9780802117571

Publisher: Grove Pr, 2003

Synopsis

As a child, Billy Saint finds guidance not from his emotionally distant parents but from the landscape of the Australian bush that surrounds him, unaware that his ever-increasing involvement with the untamed land is drawing him into something terrifying and powerful beyond his control. First serial, Granta and Black Book.

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Review:

Praise for ‘Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains’:

‘Rich, strange, unclassifiable...like “Captain Corelli’s Mandolin”. “Sunset Over Chocolate Mountains” has an intricate structure, evoking a tenderness and charm that weave magically around its characters. Heartfelt and stylish.’ The Times

‘This is a bold, captivating debut from an intelligent new voice.’ Daily Mail

‘Richly imaginative, strange and compelling, this novel contains as many stinging surprises as the desert in which it is set.’ Guardian

‘It is likely that Susan Elderkin will continue entertaining and moving us. A first-rate writer of literature.’ Observer

‘Fresh and original.’ Company

From the Back Cover:

(Front cover)

A GRANTA BEST OF BRITISH NOVELIST

THE VOICES
Susan Elderkin

''Beautifully written and utterly absorbing... Brilliant.'
Cressida Connolly, Telegraph

(Back cover)

'Tender, sensual and genuinely original... Elderkin is a great talent.'
Maggie Gee, Sunday Times

Thirteen-year-old Billy is a dreamer. Introverted at home and ignored at school, he wanders alone in the remote, blood-red landscape of the Australian bush, dreaming of roos. But one day Billy hears the haunting song of an Aboriginal girl. Her beautiful voice tugs at something deep, something larger and more powerful than himself, and he is destined to love her forever.

In an Alice Springs hospital ten years later, recovering from gruesome wounds of mysterious origin, Billy tries to explain the voices in his head. But only Cecily, the Aboriginal nurse, will listen...

'Brilliant. The confused, uncommunicative Billy is a wonderful creation and the depiction of Aboriginal life at the beginning of the 21st century is heartbreaking and very funny.'
Cressida Connolly, Telegraph

'For sheer narrative invention, she is without an equal.'
Stevie Davies, Independent

'Delicate, powerful and strange.'
Eve

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About this edition

• Publisher: Grove Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0802117570
• ISBN 13: 9780802117571
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336