Last day in the dynamite factory
by Annah Faulkner
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'Silence, Chris discovered, is easy. If nobody asks, you never have to tell.' Christopher Bright is a well-respected conservation architect, good neighbour and friend. He has a devoted wife, two talented children and an old Rover. He plays tennis on Saturdays and enjoys a beer with his business partner after work. Life is orderly, yet an unresolved question has haunted him for as long as he can remember: Who was his birth father? Devotion to his adoptive parents has always prevented Chris show more from enquiring too deeply, but when his mother dies, information emerges that becomes the catalyst for changes he has never imagined. As light is cast on his father, attention turns to his birth mother, but when he goes in search of the person behind the photo, he encounters a conspiracy of silence. His quest for information, however, reveals not only the truth about his mother's life but exposes the fault lines in his own, and Chris finds the price of knowledge increasingly heavy. Nevertheless, the truth must be told ...Or must it? show lessTags
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I couldn't really engage with this - the main character struck me as self-indulgent and his wife a kind of caricature - so their struggles with trauma and upheaval both past and present didn't move me much. Faulkner writes clear, readable prose and there are moments of beauty, but on the whole it all felt a bit flat to me.
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Annah Faulkner is the author of Last Day in the Dynamite Factory, which made the Readings New Australina Writing Award 2015 shortlist. Readings established the award in February 2014 to support published Australian fiction authors, with the aim of increasing `the commercial success of first or second books by Australian authors¿. (Bowker Author show more Biography) show less
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