The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling
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The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling

SKU TBM9781876485023
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ISBN: 9781876485023
Shelf No: 1131
Author: Tom Gilling
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Text Publishing
Place: Melbourne VIC
Year: 1999
Format: Paperback
Volume: 1
Pages: 224 pages
Book Type: SECONDHAND
Cost: 1.00
Period: 19th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Some general edgewear. Sunning of pages. Book is clean and binding intact. Previous owner has signed inside page.

On a squally afternoon in the winter of 1821, Sarah Dyer gives birth to the strangest child ever seen in Van Diemen's Land, a thing more seal than human. The Reverend Mr Kidney at first suspects a virgin birth. Mr Sculley, an anatomist and man of science, hails it as the antipodean answer to the elusive Dutch sooterkin. The pup is a joy to its parents and a welcome companion to their nine-year-old son, Ned. But when a well-dressed stranger arrives bearing a modest proposal for the infant's future, no one foresees the trouble that lies ahead. The Sooterkin is a vividly imagined and wickedly funny tale of an upside-down world turned inside out.

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