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Sixty Seconds (2017)

by Jesse Blackadder

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The Brennans - parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby - have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart to subtropical Murwillumbah. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they're still adjusting to work, school and life in a sprawling purple weatherboard when, one morning, tragedy strikes.In the devastating aftermath questions fly: What really happened? And who's to blame?Determined to protect his family, Finn finds himself under the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged, Bridget spends nights hunting answers in the last place imaginable. Jarrah - his innocence lost - faces a sudden and frightening adulthood where nothing is certain.Sixty Seconds is a haunting, redemptive story about forgiveness and hope.… (more)
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Story of the drowning of a child in a backyard pool. Viewed from each surviving family member's perspective. Insights into the grief, trauma, guilt, confusion and anger experienced. ( )
  ElizabethCromb | May 22, 2022 |
Not sure about it. Quick to read, I was interested in what would happen to them all. Don’t think anyone who has actually experienced the death of a child could go anywhere near this book. ( )
  pruthomas | Dec 14, 2021 |
This is a pretty good book, I reckon. It's all about what happens when a marriage that is already stressed is subject to the trauma of the drowning of their toddler in a backyard pool. How can any person survive this? What does it do the the survivors? The fact that the author is such a survivor is probably why the characters' responses seem so realistic. I didn't give it 5 stars because I thought the final outcome was a little too commercial. But maybe I'm wrong. ( )
  oldblack | Feb 2, 2018 |
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The boy steps into the day like he owns it - like he is, in fact, God and has conjured this up with a sweep of his hand before breakfast: this achingly blue sky, this currawong sending out a ringing call from the verandah post, this water dragon sunning on a warm rock to loosen her scales, cocking her head and blinking a yellow eye in his direction.
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The Brennans - parents, Finn and Bridget, and their sons, Jarrah and Toby - have made a sea change, from chilly Hobart to subtropical Murwillumbah. Feeling like foreigners in this land of sun and surf, they're still adjusting to work, school and life in a sprawling purple weatherboard when, one morning, tragedy strikes.In the devastating aftermath questions fly: What really happened? And who's to blame?Determined to protect his family, Finn finds himself under the police and media spotlight. Guilty and enraged, Bridget spends nights hunting answers in the last place imaginable. Jarrah - his innocence lost - faces a sudden and frightening adulthood where nothing is certain.Sixty Seconds is a haunting, redemptive story about forgiveness and hope.

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