Just read The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy and it was a captivating read. It was the people’s choice for the Premiers Literary awards 2010. I’m not a fan of chick lit and thought this was going to be one of them, but the setting was something that interested me, Tasmania’s six day track, so I gave it ago.
I was about to say it wasn’t really chick lit, but when I think about it all of the central characters were women, except for two! But it was really a story about finding/remembering what is important to you.
The book takes you into the minds of two Franklin Dam protesters, twenty years after the event. They had met at the protest, joined up, eventually had a daughter, but split before the girl turned one.
At fifteen the girl is everything her hippy mother isn’t. She successfully hiding her anorexia and is invited by her never met before father to accompany him on the walk.
He is trying to get back some of the cudos he has lost over the years, by showing his distant daughter how capable he is. Her mother spends their time away at a mediation workshop for self renewal.
It is worth a read for the description of the Tasmanian wilderness if nothing else, but it has more than that in it. Give it a go I bet you have to finish it, like I did.
1 comment:
this old wanna be hippy enjoyed this book too!
Di
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