Madeleine Watts’ debut novel, The Inland Sea, has been shortlisted for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award. Watts explores feminine fear, apathy and danger, building to a tightly controlled bushfire of ecological and personal crisis.Fiction – Kindle edition Pushkin 256 pages 2021. Written with down-to-earth lucidity and ethereal breeziness, this is an unforgettable debut about coming of age in a world that seems increasingly hostile.
Reckless and adrift, she prepares to leave. She's working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator, drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, wandering Sydney's streets late at night, and navigating an affair with an ex-lover. Two centuries later, his great-great-great-great granddaughter (and our narrator) spends a final year in Sydney reeling from her own self-destructive obsessions. The myth of the inland sea was taken up by other men, and over the years search parties walked out into the desert, dying as they tried to find it. Oxley never found it, but he never ceased to believe it was out there.
In the early 19th century, British explorer John Oxley traversed the then-unknown wilderness of central Australia in search of water.
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