Death of a Whaler
Allen & Unwin, $22.95 pb, 312 pp, 1741147913
Fiction
Death of a Whaler by Nerida Newton
by Corrie Hosking •
Death of a Whaler considers the grand themes of death, grief, the quest for meaning and the potential for reawakening. Just days before the Byron Bay whalers are made redundant in 1962, lopsided Flinch is involved in an accident and literally frozen. It is not only when he meets Karma, himself troubled by the past, that Flinch reluctantly begins the trial of healing.
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Death of a Whaler
by Nerida Newton
Allen & Unwin, $22.95 pb, 312 pp, 1741147913
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