The River Baptists

Fiction & Literature
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Author: Belinda Castles ISBN: 9781741761993
Publisher: Allen & Unwin Publication: August 1, 2007
Imprint: Allen & Unwin Language: English
Author: Belinda Castles
ISBN: 9781741761993
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Publication: August 1, 2007
Imprint: Allen & Unwin
Language: English

Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2006.

An engrossing novel of secrets, small communities and the consequences of living with the past.

Set in a small riverside community, The River Baptists tells the story of Rose, bunkered down in a borrowed house overlooking the river, grieving for her dead father and waiting for her baby to be born. It is also the story of Danny, another refugee from life elsewhere, hiding out from his violent father and dreaming of owning a block of land on the river. Then there are the river old-timers, who miss nothing and forget less, and a newcomer who cares nothing for the locals, or the secrets of the past. Set over the course of a long hot tense summer, when sparks constantly threaten to ignite bushfires, the tight-knit riverside community is set alight by confidences betrayed and a renewed age-old grudge.

And through it all flows the mysterious pulse of the river, indifferent, deep and calm, offering the possibility of life and death, renewal and rebirth.

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Winner of the Australian/Vogel's Literary Award 2006.

An engrossing novel of secrets, small communities and the consequences of living with the past.

Set in a small riverside community, The River Baptists tells the story of Rose, bunkered down in a borrowed house overlooking the river, grieving for her dead father and waiting for her baby to be born. It is also the story of Danny, another refugee from life elsewhere, hiding out from his violent father and dreaming of owning a block of land on the river. Then there are the river old-timers, who miss nothing and forget less, and a newcomer who cares nothing for the locals, or the secrets of the past. Set over the course of a long hot tense summer, when sparks constantly threaten to ignite bushfires, the tight-knit riverside community is set alight by confidences betrayed and a renewed age-old grudge.

And through it all flows the mysterious pulse of the river, indifferent, deep and calm, offering the possibility of life and death, renewal and rebirth.

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