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A story of incantatory beauty set in the wilds of Australia Susan Elderkinssecond novel The Voices has earned her the distinction from Granta as one ofthe Best Young British Writers Under 40. In the remote blood red dust of theAustralian bush thirteenyearold Billy Saint turns to the stark landscape andmesmerizing spirits of the native Aborigines for the companionship he lacks athome. When he is befriended by Maisie an enigmatic Aboriginal girl who hassung him up he slowly comes to realize that he is meddling with powers farbeyond his control. Ten years later Billy lies in a hospital bed recoveringfrom gruesome wounds of mysterious origin. Shifting between his hospital stayand the childhood that led him there The Voices unfolds into a hauntingexploration of the relationship between a white man the land he loves and thenative spirits of the country struggling to be heard before they are lostforever. «
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