Australian Women Writers Gen 5-SFF Week 15-22 Jan. 2023
Marcie McCauley, who blogs as Buried in Print, struggles in the wilds of Canada to get hold of Australian books to read. But she did get this one in time to review it for AWW Gen 5 Week and I’m happy that it follows on from my interview with Jane.
Marcie McCauley
Bill recommended Jane Rawson’s From the Wreck (2017) and I read it throughout the winter break, so that I met George gnawing on human flesh, while I was crunching through shortbread fingers and thumbprint cookies with red jam filling.
Don’t let the reference to cannibalism put you off: nobody really knows what happened, we only know that the few survivors of the historic 1859 wreck of the Admella (a ship named for its route between the Australian settlements of Adelaide, Melbourne, Launceston) were not rescued for weeks and had no reliable food source. Read on (if you dare) …
The Australian Legend 
A book, I’d still like to read.
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And how can I not pay attention if people are eating each other??
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Australia has a long tradition of people eating each other, it’s how escaping convicts survived. But I urge you to read the book for yourself, it’s at least as good as Carmen Dog.
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So, what you’re saying is that the animals in Australia are not straight-up vicious, but that they’ve been watching you all eat each other and are on the defense?
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Considering that Australia is the world capital of mammalian extinction it’s no wonder some of them – though mostly reptiles and arachnids – fight back.
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