![]() ![]() Parallels are drawn with the present day via Lachie in particular due to his disrespectful attitude towards Indigenous history and rights. Led by crow to correct a grave injustice from the past, Sadie finds herself slipping back in to history, to the 1920’s, where she finds herself in the life of Sarah Louise caught up in a tragic event. Whilst this relationship simmers in the background the central storyline of Crow Country involves Sadie’s unravelling of the town’s past. Her relationship with her mother is complex and revealing whilst demonstrating the author’s enviable ability to put herself in the shoes of a young girl. ![]() ![]() Crow, the totem of the Dja Dja Wurrung, has other plans for he knows there is a reason for her being here – a story, a riddle, wrongs to be put right – he has work for Sadie to complete.Ĭonstable effortlessly portrays ten year old Sadie with searing honesty. Sadie has just moved to Boort the place of her mother’s childhood. “A Crow’s breath, a story and a girl’s dream”Ĭrow Country opens from the crow’s vision – he spies Sadie “a human girl-child” and notes the girl stalking along a path, eyes down and oblivious to the country around her. Kate Constable’s latest novel, Crow Country, encompasses time-slip adventures and Australian Indigenous history with the over riding theme of doing the right thing, and correcting mistakes. ![]()
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