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Andrew McGahan is one of Australia's finest writers of fiction. His first novel, Praise, won The Australian/Vogel Literary Award in 1992. In 2004, The White Earth won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, The Age Book of the Year, and The Courier Mail Book of the Year Award. His most recent novel is Wonders of a Godless World. In 2009, Andrew was shortlisted for the Manning Clark House National Cultural Awards for his contribution to Australian Literature. The Coming of the Whirlpool was his first novel for young adults. Andrew lives in Victoria.
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What I love most about this story is how the laws of nature come to play such an important role and obstacle in the journey. So creative and easy to get lost in. It's easy to see this world and just as easy to pine over the fact that it's not real - the same longing that one gets at the age of 11 when they realize their letter for Hogwarts will never come. An amazing and engaging original story.
While this is a book for young adults I have been captivated and unable to put both this and the first volume down! Only occasionally too much detail but so much tempo this didn't matter