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A cracking supernatural crime mystery from the twice winner of the Aurealis Award for Best Australian Science Fiction Novel.This charming spooky novel is set in Pelican River, south-west of Perth, in the 1920s. With all the charm and cosiness of a BBC TV period drama, the story plays out in the aftermath of the First World War and is centred around the eccentric and newly widowed Ruth, her butler Rutherford, and her aunt Julia – together with Ruth’s inventor neighbour Gordon and his raft of hounds, and the elusive and sinister demon, Mr Nor.
Humour abounds and the characters explore the new ideas in science and physics of the era, as well as the development of science fiction itself, with the cameos by the likes of Mr H.G. Wells.
This novel also bears the traces of the effect of war on a nation and its people, and the complex question of attitudes towards Indigenous people at the beginning of the last century.
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