Into that Forest
Allen & Unwin, $19.99 pb, 172 pp, 9781743311646
Young Adult Fiction
Into that Forest by Louis Nowra
by Laura Elvery •
The world’s last known Tasmanian tiger died in Hobart Zoo in 1936. Surviving film footage of the marsupial is brief. No sound recordings exist of a thylacine’s bark or cough. Its extinction is one of Australia’s most lamentable tales. Nowra’s sad, dark novel imagines how these carnivores could care for two children lost in the wilderness.
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Into that Forest
by Louis Nowra
Allen & Unwin, $19.99 pb, 172 pp, 9781743311646
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