Review

Karen Manton's The Curlew's Eye is a Gothic mystery set in Australia's Top End

By Ian McFarlane
September 18 2021 - 12:00am
  • The Curlew's Eye, by Karen Manton. Allen & Unwin, $32.99.

The title of this debut novel attracted me, since I grew up near a salt marsh estuary on the south coast of England, where the melancholic call of curlews on lonely winter evenings would haunt my imagination.

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