A forgotten fragment of Australia's past inspires a powerful new novel. It is the end of the nineteenth century, and one of the most powerful storms in history is born when a hurricane named Mahina moves across the Coral Sea. To a remote part of the Queensland coast come the hundreds of sails of the northern pearling fleets and a native policeman trying to solve a murder. Nearly two thousand men, women and children are gathering around Cape Melville, right in the path of the storm that is about to cause Australia's deadliest natural disaster. Based on real events, this is the story of an unstoppable force of nature and the birth and death of an Australian dream.
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`My dearest Father, a storm is coming',
By J. Cameron-Smith "Expect the Unexpected" (ACT, Australia) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: The Devil's Eye (Paperback)
This novel was inspired by the powerful storm known as Hurricane Mahina. In March 1899, Mahina moved across the Coral Sea on a course which set for Cape Melville where almost two thousand people were gathering. At the same time, the northern pearling fleets were in her path, as was a murder investigation in a remote part of the Queensland coast.
The tensions of the approaching storm, the lives and secrets of the characters in the novel, and between the different people and cultures involved in colonial Queensland provides a vivid canvas for this novel. As the natural disaster unfolds, Margaret Porter takes her daughter Alice to join her husband on the pearling schooner `Admiral'. Maggie has news for her husband, and also hopes to persuade her sister Mary to return home to Thursday Island, where their father is the Government Resident. The movement between the murder investigation, the events on the schooner and the events on land is rapid as the action is largely compressed within a week. The secrets of people, the expectations of society and the powerful might of nature make for a heady combination. I enjoyed this novel, and would now like to know more about the events represented. Jennifer Cameron-Smith
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