PublishedHachette, July 2014 |
ISBN9780733632341 |
FormatSoftcover, 304 pages |
Dimensions21.1cm × 14.2cm × 2.5cm |
Once an artist and teacher, Jen now spends her time watching the birds around her house and tending her lush sub-tropical garden near the small town where she grew up. The only person she sees regularly is Henry, who comes after school for drawing lessons.
When a girl in Henry's class goes missing, Jen is pulled back into the depths of her own past. When she was Henry's age she lost her father and her best friend Michael - both within a week. The whole town talked about it then, and now, nearly forty years later, they're talking about it again. Everyone is waiting - for the girl to be found and the summer rain to arrive. At last, when the answers do come, like the wet, it is in a drenching, revitalising downpour...
Barbara is an award-winning bookseller who has a special interest in fiction, especially Australian fiction and children’s books for all ages.
Inga hails from Queensland and is another new voice in Australian writing. Inga's first novel Mr Wigg was shortlisted for the 2014 Indie Fiction Book of the Year and was a deligthful novel about an unforgettable main character. Nest is equally enchanting. Inga's passion is Australian nature writing and she has used her love and expertise for the Australian countryside and our unique animals and birds that inhabit our great land to wonderful effect in her two novels. The main character in Nest is Jen, once an artist and teacher who now spends her days watching birds and looking after her sub tropical garden near the country town of her childhood. The only person she sees on a regular basis is Henry who visits her for drawing lessons. A girl in Henry's class goes missing and this event brings back traumatic memories for Jen who lost her father and her best friend Michael when she was Henry's age. Inga manages to evoke the tranquilness of the countryside and the drama of the missing girl so skillfully that I am already eagerly awaiting her next novel.
