Psychological thriller set on the MANI PENINSULA (Peloponnese)
The Inland Sea
Location(s): Australia, Sydney
Genre(s): Fiction
Era(s): Contemporary and early 19th century
A fierce and beautiful novel about coming of age in a dying world.
In the early nineteenth century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water – ‘the inland sea’. He never found it, but he never ceased to believe that it was out there.
Two centuries later, his great-great-great-great granddaughter spends her last year in Sydney reeling from her own self-destructive obsessions. She’s working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator, drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, wandering the city’s dangerous streets late at night, and navigating an affair with an ex-lover.
Reckless and adrift, she prepares to leave.
Written with down-to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness, The Inland Sea explores feminine fear, apathy, danger and longing, against a backdrop of ecological and personal crisis.
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