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Flanagan’s story is recounted in elegant (Sophie’s mother) and meek grandson, Liam, and her unrequited emperor of Oz’s Emerald City soldiers, Maguire weaves a mythic tale prose and with a depth of emotional engagement, historical accuracy passion for her ever-estranged son Dominic. Beneath Cooee’s spiky, of self-discovery filled with teasing subplots and colourful characters, and philosophical questioning reminiscent of Sebastian Faulks’ wry, coolly analytic tone, as embodied by Isabel, lies a deep affection told with his trademark razor-sharp wit. masterpiece, Birdsong (Vintage. PB $24.95). for its characters, and a compassionate, conflicted heart. This darkly imaginative novel succeeds magnificently in fully inhabiting the THE BELIEVERS broken family at its core. A MERCY Zoë Heller Toni Morrison Fig Tree. PB. $32.95. DECEPTION Chatto & Windus. HB. Michael Meehan Was $39.95, now $34.95. The sharp eye for detail and facility for satire that characterised Zoë Heller’s first novel, Allen & Unwin. PB. $32.95. Toni Morrison revisits the scene of Everything You Know, is once again on show in Intensely introspective in tone, this earthy American slavery for the first time since this, her highly anticipated third novel. While very historical novel moves between the her best known work, Beloved (Vintage. different from her previous work, Notes on a Australian bush and New Caledonia in PB. $24.95), this time focusing on the Scandal (which Richard Eyres made into a highly successful film the 1870s, to 1968 Paris and its student trade in its infancy. She explores the starring Judi Dench and Cate Blanchett in 2006), The Believers once riots. Narrator Nicholas follows the trail of foundations of American slavery and of again showcases Heller’s acute observation of flawed human nature his shadowy family history from dusty America itself – a New World composed of and presents a cast of compellingly misanthropic characters. Chief rural South Australia, where his French misfits seeking a new life. Race is a central ingredient, of course, but among these is Audrey, the abrasive wife of radical lawyer Joel grandmother Agnes was left behind by it’s only one in a heady mix of religious and class distinctions that Litvinoff. When Joel has a stroke and Audrey finds out that he has a her fleeing family, to France and the aging remnants of those who left. underpin a hierarchy of power. The historical setting and its issues child by another woman, her smug, impeccably leftist life is Agnes’s sisters welcome Nicholas, but evasively skirt the truth about are subtly sketched, but the emphasis is on the characters: young challenged and her own children – unhappy but worthy Karla, brilliant why they left Australia and why Agnes stayed. Meanwhile, Nicholas is slave Florens and her mother, who abandons her in order to save her; but unpredictable Rosa and drug-addicted Lenny – suffer the fall-out. bent on unlocking the mysteries of something else left behind on the compassionate white farmer Jacob; his wife Rebekka, a victim of Set in New York, where the British-born Heller now lives, this is an family property – the manuscript of writer Sebastian Jouvenal. religious persecution; and Native American Lina, whose tribe was addictively acerbic read. Michael Meehan’s third novel is quietly accomplished, intricately decimated by smallpox. 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