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After the Fire, a Still Small Voice
After the Fire, a Still Small Voice | Evie Wyld
9 posts | 4 read | 2 to read
After the departure of the woman he loves, Frank struggles to rebuild his life among the sugarcane and sand dunes that surround his oceanside shack. Forty years earlier, Leon is drafted to serve in Vietnam and finds himself suddenly confronting the same experiences that haunt his war-veteran father. As these two stories weave around each othereach narrated in a voice as tender as it is fiercewe learn what binds Frank and Leon together, and what may end up keeping them apart. Set in the unforgiving landscape of eastern Australia, Evie Wylds accomplished debut tackles the inescapability of the past, the ineffable ties of family, and the wars fought by fathers and sons. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Joanne1
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Here‘s my list for #bookspinbingo, July #bookspin and #doublespin. Not sure how much reading time I‘ll have as I may be starting full time work soon (after working part time for a decade) but I‘m excited to get a few off the TBR. @TheAromaofBooks

annahenke Best wishes on your work change! 4y
rockpools Hope the new job goes well 💐 4y
Joanne1 Thanks @annahenke and @RachelO. It‘s just an expansion of my current role but I‘m very excited to be getting more hours. It might take some adjusting to going to work five days a week. 4y
TheAromaofBooks Great list and good luck with the extra hours - I'm not sure I could adjust to full-time after reveling in part-time for so long! 4y
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TheLudicReader
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Bailedbailed

This was my #bookspin pick for Feb and I got as far as page 88, but I just can‘t go on. This book has been on my shelf for eons and I am sad that I didn‘t make it through, but oh well....
Anyone read it? Is it worth having another crack at it at some point?

EliNeedsMoreShelves I remember DNF'ing this one as well, a long time ago.. 4y
TheAromaofBooks As long as your bail means this one is off your shelf, it totally counts for completely your #bookspin book!! The goal is just to get lingering books off the TBR. 4y
Hooked_on_books I really like the cover, but the title is oddly worded. I wonder if the book is that way, too. 4y
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TheLudicReader
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Lucky number 12 #bookspin via @TheAromaofBooks . Thanks for the motivation to tackle some of my backlist tbr.

TheAromaofBooks That cover is gorgeous! 4y
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Joanne1
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My lovely book club spend the first weekend in May at Clunes Booktown. This is pit collective effort from Day 1. Should keep us going for a while.

CarolynM What a good book club tradition! Looks like you've done well in the shops. 5y
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LapReader
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Pickpick

Took the girls for a big walk down the street to shop today to wear them out. So excited to find these at Stockton's St Paul's Thrift Shop and devastated the new priest wants to get rid of the books! What a crazy idea!

LapReader Any of these Picoult ones good? @Miss__astrid 6y
Miss__astrid @LapReader I wasn‘t 100% sold on leaving time, it‘s very different from the other ones I read. But it‘s still worth reading! And I haven‘t read the other one! You‘ll have to let me know how it is ☺️ 6y
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winemom
Bailedbailed

This pains me, as I love Evie's work. About 100 pages in, I'm not connecting to anyone or anything in the story. I'll definitely pick it back up again later. It's hard to tell what the story is supposed to be about.

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winemom
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1. Fort Bragg, NC
2. This is my first real effort.
3. Litsy
4. Within These Walls and My Best Friend's Exorcism
5. I miss John Candy, and I'd kill for a blueberry coffee right now.
6. Mostly right here on Litsy and some on Facebook (Kelsea Worley), though Facebook distracts me terribly. You can definitely add me, but I'm going to try to remember to post publicly this weekend. #24in48 #readathon

Rachbb3 I miss John Candy too. 😢 7y
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winemom
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Trying to make an honest effort to read a couple hundred pages tonight, and I keep getting distracted by the sickening amount of cute at the other end of the sofa.

BarbaraTheBibliophage That baby belly! 💚 7y
Laura317 One sleeping and the other zoned out. Priceless! I don't blame you a bit for being distracted. 7y
Johanna414 I don't blame you! That is a seriously high level of cute! 7y
winemom ❤️ They're both a mess and a half. 7y
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TheWellAccompaniedBook
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I loved All The Birds, Singing, so keen to see what this one is like.

MrsMalaprop I loved All the Birds too. 7y
TheWellAccompaniedBook @SMW I gave it 5 stars. This one will probably get 4. Not quite as gripping, but still very good. 7y
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