All fall down

Resource Information

The work All fall down 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

All fall down

Statement of responsibility

Cassandra Austin

Creator

• Austin, Cassandra, 1969-

Author

• Austin, Cassandra, 1969-

Subject

• Communities -- Fiction
• Interpersonal relations -- Fiction
• Secrecy -- Fiction
• Australian fiction
• Suspense fiction
• Bridge failures -- Australia -- Fiction

Genre

• Suspense fiction
• Fiction
• Australian fiction

Language

eng

Summary

When a bridge in the small outback town of Mululuk mysteriously collapses, the town is cut off from the world, and its citizens from each other. As the locals try to work out why the bridge fell and what it will take to replace it, old rivalries, forgotten romances and primitive drives come to the fore. Teenaged Rachel has come from 'the city' to stay with her uncle after her home life has fallen apart, and she quickly becomes involved in the quest for the truth about the bridge. Father Nott, the local Franciscan priest, is trying to get the hysterical townsfolk to see sense, particularly his gossip-mongering friend Gussy. Shane, Janice and Craig find themselves at the heart of a devastating love triangle, with deadly ramifications that will reverberate far beyond the three of them. And the mysterious Charlie, a scruffy, charismatic alcoholic with a dark past, has a terrifying idea about what it takes to keep a bridge standing. In a town that keeps its secrets like it builds its houses - underground - Charlie's is the most dangerous of all. Wry, rich and unsettling, All Fall Down is a starkly Australian gothic novel about a community divided, and a chilling, archaic belief about what must be done to reunite it

Cataloging source

ANL

Index

no index present

Literary form

novels

Target audience

adult