Forgetting Business (Part 1 of The Kerosene Creek Mysteries)
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Description
In July 1888, the entire population of the Southern Highlands village of Kerosene Creek disappear without trace. A month later, a young woman appears on the steps of Saint Bridget’s Convent, starving, distressed and mute. Her name is Jindy Fiadh Kelly and she appears to be the sole survivor, but she has completely lost her memory. Aboriginal tracker Jimmy Sugarbag calls it “forgetting business”. Amateur psychologist Sister Thomas diagnoses “hysterical amnesia,” and she believes that recovering Jindy’s memory may hold the answer the Kerosene Creek mystery; but Jindy’s burning need is to discover the fate of her Ngunnawal mother. The three of them return to the abandoned village, where Jindy re-lives the madness that led to its destruction: the warped socialism of the Irish commune, the paranoia of its leader, the eccentric band of homesick Chinese revolutionaries who stumble on a hoard of stolen gold, the devastating betrayal of her oldest friend, and her mother’s unjust arrest and trial for witchcraft and murder.
It is a story about longing, loss and the labyrinth of memory, through the eyes of a rebellious young woman with a lust for life and a wicked sense of humour. It is set against the religious and racial prejudices of a country that is about to become Australia.
Language : English
Publisher : Pigface Books
ASIN : B0CPJBQ4WK
ISBN-13 : 979-8870661070
