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The-Merry-go-round in the sea

The-Merry-go-round in the sea

Author(s): Randolph Stow

Location(s): Western Australia

Genre(s): Fiction, Young Adult

Era(s): Mid 20th Century

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In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from his world of aunties and cousins and the beautiful, dry landscape of Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite, older cousin, Rick, leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer.

When Rick returns from the war several years later, he has changed and Rob feels betrayed. The old merry-go-round that represents Rob’s dream of utopia (the security of his family and of the land that is his home) begins to disintegrate before his eyes.

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It is hugely evocative of place and time – Neder Shaw –

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