Time's Long Ruin: A Novel
Author(s): Stephen Orr
Nine-year-old Henry Page is a club-footed, deep-thinking loner, spending his summer holidays reading, roaming the melting streets of his suburb, playing with his best friend Janice and her younger brother and sister. Then one day Janice asks Henry to spend the day at the beach with them. He declines, a decision that will stay with him forever.
Time's Long Ruin is based loosely on the disappearance of the Beaumont children from Glenelg beach on Australia Day, 1966. It is a novel about friendship, love and loss; a story about those left behind, and how they carry on: the searching, the disappointments, the plans and dreams that are only ever put on hold.
Winner, Unpublished manuscript award, Adelaide Festival awards for literature
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Wakefield Press Pty, Limited
- : Wakefield Press
- : 0.45
- : 07 December 2009
- : Australia
- : 01 August 2011
- : books
Special Fields
- : black white illustrations
- : 432
- : 823.4
- : English
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Stephen Orr