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Cedar Flat, Alex Jones
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Alex Jones

Cedar Flat

Murray Reynolds, an engineer and mathematician who has turned his skills to earning an income from financial markets, retires to a rented cabin at Cedar Flat, a failed resort in what may once have been a cedar forest on the coast of New South Wales. His wife, Julia, keen to further her career, stays in the city, but encourages Murray to assume responsibility for their daughter, Pim, a sullen loner with few life skills. The two are befriended by their neighbour, Laura, to whom Pim looks for support in the face of the unsettling environment of her new home, and her own lack of practical knowledge. Seeking to discover why the resort never succeeded, Murray is met with conflicting tales of long-ago racial injustice and dispossession. The stories he hears of timber-getters, cattlemen, aboriginal massacres, a historic shipwreck, and a curse only leave him more confused. Pim, meanwhile, is gaining confidence from her new school friends. As both Murray and Pim, searching for the true story of Cedar Flat, are taken far beyond their comfort zones, a new beginning becomes possible for them both.
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228 printed pages
Copyright owner
Strategic Book Publishing
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  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    Symbols, language, mathematics: they all create worlds – worlds upon worlds – but is this world we find ourselves in amongst them?
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    There are different stories; I’m sure a lot of wrong was done on both sides if you knew the truth of it. I’m just glad we’ve gone past that sort of thing where you keep having reprisals on one side and payback on the other. I think – I hope – most of us these days are reconciled to living together.’
  • Ирина Осипенкоhas quoted3 years ago
    People didn’t think enough about the sound of names: the name and the thing should go together. The word ‘woman’ now – a pout, a kiss and a smile – a sort of natural history of sexual relations perfectly wrapped up in two syllables.
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