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Issue Details: First known date: 1969... 1969 Finn's Folly
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An accident on a foggy Australian country road brings together the lives of five children and five adults.

The Kirkus Review in 1969 offered the following synopsis:

Four children alone in an isolated lakeside cabin on a cold, foggy night, the oldest, Max, an edgy fifteen, the youngest, David, infantile at nine; the sound of a crash, of repeated thuds from the hairpin road on which their parents should be returning . . . the situation is so portentous, its demands so exacting and conflicting, subsequent occurrences so compelling that one wishes Mr. Southall had foregone a proclivity for simultaneous plot strands and intersecting paths, past and present. Along with the Shaw children waiting tensely in the cabin, there's Alison McPhee and her father approaching warily in his truck, their relationship as explosive as the cyanide it carries. The impact when the Shaw car overtakes and overturns the McPhee truck is more than a matter of strong parents cut down tragically, of a weak father cut away, perhaps fortunately; more, too, than the lightning tenderness between Alison and Max. For it seems–though there's little reason to anticipate it, less to accept it–that Alison is also the abandoned daughter of a television personality–a selfish, shallow type–who has a cabin near-by, and that her father was on his way there before the accident.

Source: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/ivan-southall-5/finns-folly/ (Sighted: 28/5/2014)

Exhibitions

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
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      St. Martin's Press ,
      1969 .
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      Extent: 158p.
    • Ringwood, Ringwood - Croydon - Kilsyth area, Melbourne - East, Melbourne, Victoria,: Puffin , 1972 .
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      Extent: 158p.
      ISBN: 0140305572
    • Melbourne, Victoria,: Untapped , 2021 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 1v.p.
      ISBN: 9781922730640
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Brio Books ; Untapped , 2022 .
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      Image courtesy of publisher's website.
      Extent: 168p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 27 September 2022.
      ISBN: 9781761281341
Alternative title: Kurve im Nebel
Language: German
    • Baden-Baden,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      Signal Verlag ,
      1970 .
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      Extent: 125p.
    • Ravensburg,
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      Germany,
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      Western Europe, Europe,
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      O. Maier ,
      1973 .
      Extent: 167p.
      Reprinted: 1975
      ISBN: 3473392529

Other Formats

  • Braille.
  • Sound recording.

Works about this Work

Always His Own Man : A Brief Account of Ivan Southall's Major Writing Don Matthews , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 1 no. 1 1990; (p. 39-47)
Another Point of View 1970 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 19-22)
Children comment on three novels from the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award, 1970
Whither Southall? Eve Pownall , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 33 1969; (p. p 35-36)

— Review of Finn's Folly Ivan Southall , 1969 single work children's fiction
Whither Southall? Eve Pownall , 1969 single work review
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 33 1969; (p. p 35-36)

— Review of Finn's Folly Ivan Southall , 1969 single work children's fiction
Always His Own Man : A Brief Account of Ivan Southall's Major Writing Don Matthews , 1990 single work criticism
— Appears in: Papers : Explorations into Children's Literature , April vol. 1 no. 1 1990; (p. 39-47)
Another Point of View 1970 single work criticism
— Appears in: Reading Time : New Books for Boys and Girls , July no. 36 1970; (p. 19-22)
Children comment on three novels from the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award, 1970
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