The burning island

Resource Information

The work The burning island represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

The burning island

Statement of responsibility

Jock Serong ; [map by Simon Barnard]

Creator

• Serong, Jock

Contributor

• Barnard, Simon

Author

• Serong, Jock

Illustrator

• Barnard, Simon

Subject

• Children of alcoholics -- Fiction
• Colonists -- Fiction
• Family secrets -- Fiction
• Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Ocean travel -- Fiction
• Australia -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Sydney (N.S.W.) -- Social conditions -- 19th century -- Fiction
• Parent and child -- Fiction
• Australian fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Australian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern - too old, now - for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she knows. Something obsessive. Something to do with a man who bested him thirty-three years ago. Then Srinivas, another figure from that dark past, offers Joshua Grayling the chance for a reckoning with his nemesis. Eliza is horrified. The plan entails a sea voyage far to the south and an uncertain, possibly violent, outcome. Out of the question for an elderly man-insanity for a helpless drunkard who also happens to be blind. Unable to dissuade her father from his mad quest, Eliza begins to understand she may be forced to go with him. Then she sees the ship they will be sailing on. And in that instant, the voyage of the Moonbird becomes Eliza's mission too

Cataloging source

AUNRT

Dewey number

A823.4

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary form

fiction