''Death of a Whaler'' is a novel written by Australian author

Nerida Newton Nerida Newton (born 1972) is an Australian novelist whose first novel, '' The Lambing Flat'' won the Emerging Author category for the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and was shortlisted for The Australian/Vogel Literary Award. In 2004 the ...

and was first published in 2006. It is Newton's second novel.

Plot summary

Byron Bay Byron Bay ( Minjungbal: ''Cavvanbah)'' is a beachside town located in the far-northeastern corner of the state of New South Wales, Australia on Bundjalung Country. It is located north of Sydney and south of Brisbane. Cape Byron, a hea ...

, 1962. On the second last day before the whaling station is closed down for good, Flinch, the young spotter, is involved in a terrible accident. Over a decade later, Flinch has become a recluse, unable to move on from that fatal moment. The Bay, too, seems stalled in its bloody past, the land and the ocean on which it was founded now barren and unyielding. It is only after crossing paths with Karma, a girl living in one of the hinterland's first hippie communes, that Flinch gradually and reluctantly embarks upon a path towards healing, coming to terms with his past, present and future.

External links

Nerida Newton's Home Page
2006 Australian novels Novels set in the 1960s Fiction set in 1962 Novels set in New South Wales Allen & Unwin books

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