Time's Long Ruin
A novel
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Publisher Description
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.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Based on an unsolved real-life case in which three children in Adelaide disappeared in 1966, this novel is both a historical recreation and an incisive exploration of trauma. With its evocative prose and careful, nuanced plotting, the story is told through the eyes of a young boy who was close to the missing children. Times Long Ruin is a richly detailed and sensitive meditation on the lost and never found.
