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  • Published: 5 February 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273820
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99
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Fly Away Peter




A cast of wildly different characters, united by a love of birds, come together on the coast of Australia in 1914. Their avian idyll is soon disturbed as war rips through Europe, irrevocably changing and challenging their lives.

For three very different people brought together by their love for birds, life on the Queensland coast in 1914 is the timeless and idyllic world of sandpipers, ibises and kingfishers. In another hemisphere civilization rushes headlong into a brutal conflict. Life there is lived from moment to moment. Inevitably, the two young men - sanctuary owner and employee - are drawn to the war, and into the mud and horror of the trenches of Armentieres. Alone on the beach, their friend Imogen, the middle-aged wildlife photographer, must acknowledge for all three of them that the past cannot be held.

  • Published: 5 February 1999
  • ISBN: 9780099273820
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

David Malouf

David Malouf is the internationally acclaimed author of novels including Ransom, The Great World (winner of the Commonwealth Writers’ prize and the Prix Femina Etranger), Remembering Babylon (winner of the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award), An Imaginary Life, Conversations at Curlow Creek, Dream Stuff, Every Move You Make and his autobiographical classic 12 Edmondstone Street. His Collected Stories won the 2008 Australia-Asia Literary Award. His most recent books are A First Place and The Writing Life. He was born in 1934 and was brought up in Brisbane.

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Praise for Fly Away Peter

The novel of a poet without a single trace of overwriting

Daily Telegraph

The continuities of nature are set against the obscenities of war...to contruct a memorable book

Sunday Telegraph

Simply brilliant and naturalistically told

Guardian

Malouf is subtle, lyric and insistent. His stories enter the memory and stay there.

Irish Times