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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 The Cane
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'Nail-biting, atmospheric, and unputdownable, the brilliant new thriller for fans of Wimmera and The Dry.

'ONE MISSING GIRL.

'NO SUSPECTS.

'A TOWN ABOUT TO IGNITE.

'Quala, a North Queensland sugar town, the 1970s.

'Barbara McClymont walks the cane fields searching for Janet, her sixteen-year-old daughter, who has been missing for weeks. The police have no leads. The people of Quala are divided by dread and distrust. But the sugar crush is underway and the cane must be burned.

'Meanwhile, children dream of a malevolent presence, a schoolteacher yearns to escape, and history keeps returning to remind Quala that the past is always present.

'As the smoke rises and tensions come to a head, the dark heart of Quala will be revealed, affecting the lives of all those who dwell beyond the cane.

'The Cane is an evocative and atmospheric thriller, and announces an exciting new voice in Australian crime writing.' 

Source : publisher's blurb

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2022 .
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      Extent: 336p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published February 2022
      ISBN: 9781760879853

Other Formats

  • Large print.
  • Dyslexic edition.

Works about this Work

Maryrose Cuskelly : The Cane Karen Chisholm , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , February 2023;

— Review of The Cane Maryrose Cuskelly , 2022 single work novel
'Maryrose Cuskelly’s novel seems to have taken Arthur Conan Doyle’s maxim to heart: ‘When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’' (Introduction) 
Maryrose Cuskelly : The Cane Karen Chisholm , 2023 single work review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , February 2023;

— Review of The Cane Maryrose Cuskelly , 2022 single work novel
'Maryrose Cuskelly’s novel seems to have taken Arthur Conan Doyle’s maxim to heart: ‘When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.’' (Introduction) 
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