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"The aftershocks from 1996 continued, year after year, often in the life of the individual more devastating than the Port Arthur massacre itself. Yet always the subsequent tragedies could be traced back to that unspeakable Sunday."
Coming home to Tasman Peninsula with her Northern Irish partner, Ruth journeys into her own psychic trauma as well as that projected onto the raw, monumental coast. When Ruth's brother John helps his fourteen-year-old son apply for a firearm's permit-almost two and a half decades after Port Arthur- they risk condemning those who do not remember the past to repeat it.
A Port Arthur survivor, Marina has returned to the Peninsula with her brother Moon to pack up Doo-No-Harm, the family holiday home, after their mother's death. Marina's personhood was so violated by her early life experience that she has been left an angry She-wolf about to set out on the hunt. In a convoy of duck rescuers, the siblings head for a confrontation with shooters on the wetland.
In these lives choreographed by trauma, damage and the ramifications of wilful forgetfulness, transformation can only occur after an extremely painful lesson.
A propos de l'auteur
Amy Barker holds degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing. Her debut novel Omega Park won the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Award for Best Emerging Author, was shortlisted for the 2010 FAW (Fellowship of Australian Writers) Christina Stead Award for fiction and was Winner of the 2012 IBBY (International Board on Books for Young People) Ena Noël Award.
Paradise Earth is Amy's second novel. It won the 2013 DJ 'Dinny' O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship and for six months she was writer in residence at the Australian Centre, University of Melbourne, where she mentored undergraduate and postgraduate creative writing students. Amy has undertaken residencies at Varuna The National Writers' House, the Tyrone Guthrie Centre for professional artists in Ireland, and most recently, she had a three-month writing stint in a cell at Old Melbourne Gaol, which like Port Arthur, is a Pentonville model prison.
Amy lives in Melbourne.
