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AuthorDave said: Robyn Friend
Author of “The Butterfly Catcher”
‘In his novel for young people, Forest Spirit, David Laing has created some truly delightful characters. The odyssey of the part-Aboriginal girl, Jars, from the dramatic death of her parents in the Australian outback, through dream displacement and mourning, to the conclusion in the forests of Tasmania, is helped along its way by bright eyed Snook and ponderous Quenton, by bad crooks and not so bad crooks, by an ancestral spirit and by some very knowing animals of the forest itself. This story works on several levels |
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