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Issue Details: First known date: 2014... 2014 The Lost Child
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'From the headland, we look across to the lighthouse on Seal Island where Mr Hammett has to take the gas bottle to keep the light flashing at night. Aunt Cele says there is no land between us and the bottom of the world where everything is white ice and there are penguins as big as men, but I know this already because Dunc has told me.

'Sylvie is five. It's the 1950s and she lives in Burley Point, a fishing village south of the Coorong on Australia's wild southern coast. She worships her older brother Dunc. She tries to make sense of her brooding mother, and her moody father who abandons the family to visit The Trollop, Layle Lewis, who lives across the lagoon.

'It's hard to keep secrets in a small town, but when Dunc goes missing, Sylvie is terrified that she is the cause. Now her father is angry all the time; her mother won't leave the house or stop cleaning. The bush and the birds and the endless beach are Sylvie's only salvation, apart from her teacher, Miss Taylor.

In the tradition of the novels of Anne Tyler and Eudora Welty, The Lost Child is a beautifully written story about family and identity and growing up. Sylvie is a charming narrator with a big heart and a sharp eye for the comic moment. As the years go by she learns how tiny events can changes entire lives, and how leaving might be the only solution when the the world will never be the same again. ' (Publisher's blurb)

Notes

  • Dedication: For my mother and sons.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Text Publishing , 2014 .
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      Extent: 287p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 26 February 2014
      ISBN: 9781922147783

Works about this Work

Review : The Lost Child Melissa Wilson , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Good Reading , April 2014; (p. 37)

— Review of The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Lost Child Carol Middleton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 360 2014; (p. 54)

— Review of The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Child's Voice Drives Powerful First Novel Helen Crompton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 April 2014; (p. 6)

— Review of The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Fractured Families Haunted by Young Ghosts Diane Stubbings , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-39 March 2014; (p. 20-21)

— Review of The Lost Girls Wendy James , 2014 single work novel ; The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Well Read Margot Lloyd , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 February 2014; (p. 20)

— Review of The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Lost Child Carody Culver , 2013 single work review
— Appears in: Books + Publishing , October vol. 93 no. 2 2013; (p. 22)

— Review of The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Well Read Margot Lloyd , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 1 February 2014; (p. 20)

— Review of The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Fractured Families Haunted by Young Ghosts Diane Stubbings , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 29-39 March 2014; (p. 20-21)

— Review of The Lost Girls Wendy James , 2014 single work novel ; The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Child's Voice Drives Powerful First Novel Helen Crompton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: The West Australian , 8 April 2014; (p. 6)

— Review of The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
Review : The Lost Child Carol Middleton , 2014 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 360 2014; (p. 54)

— Review of The Lost Child Suzanne McCourt , 2014 single work novel
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