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Young Adult Fiction
by Maya Linden
May 2012, no. 341

Sea Hearts  by Margo Lanagan

Allen & Unwin, $19.99 pb, 343 pp, 9781742375052

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Sea Hearts takes place in an intensely wrought setting, both unnerving and thrilling – in propinquity to our world, yet enchantingly different. We journey, with a series of intriguing characters, through brutal landscapes where the wind is ‘swiping like a cat’s paw at a mousehole’.

 


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Sea Hearts  by Margo Lanagan

Allen & Unwin, $19.99 pb, 343 pp, 9781742375052

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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