"It was a good question. It had been asked a lot over the years, and Kieran was as familiar as anyone in town with the last known movements of Gabby Birch, aged fourteen."
Goodness I read this an age ago. The author of The Dry is back with an unrelated tale and one that I eagerly purchased as a pre-release. The pacing seemed a little off in this one, that is to say it took a long time to gain momentum, but when it did it was worth the wait.
Set in a small seaside hamlet in Tasmania, the title refers to a statue that pays tribute to a shipwreck near the treacherous cliffside which contains caves which fill up at high tide. The shipwreck is a rather fitting description of the lives of the residents and returning exresidents of Evelyn Bay - so many haunted figures due to the ghosts of the past. A fatal accident and the disappearance of a young girl cast a dark shadow on the town and the author spends a great deal of time setting the scene, before we dive into the buried secrets and final outcome.
Thankfully patience is rewarded and the ending is quite something, which is rather vague I know, but I'm trying to suggest you need to seek it out for yourself.
4 out of 5 incidents don't get washed away.
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