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The Arsonist tells a remarkable detective story, as the police close in on someone they believe to be a cunning offender; and a puzzling psychological story, as defence lawyers seek to understand the motives of a man who, they claimed, was a na�f that had accidentally dropped a cigarette.
It is the story not only of this fire - how it happened, the people who died, the aftermath for the community - but of fire in this country. What it has done, what it has meant, what it might yet do. Bushfire is one of Australia's deepest anxieties, never more so than when deliberately lit. Arson, wrote Henry Lawson, expresses a malice 'terrifying to those who have seen what it is capable of. You never know when you are safe.'
As she did in The Tall Man, Chloe Hooper takes us to a part of the country seldom explored, and reveals something buried but essential in our national psyche. The bush, summertime, a smouldering cigarette - none of these will feel the same again.
- Chloe Hooper - Author
- Chloe Hooper - Author
- Sibylla Budd - Narrator
OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780143792765
- File size: 191941 KB
- Release date: October 15, 2018
- Duration: 06:39:52
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9780143792765
- File size: 191965 KB
- Release date: October 15, 2018
- Duration: 06:43:52
- Number of parts: 7