Mayne, William. Drift. 1985. Bath: Lythway-Chivers Press, 1986.
From the perspective of twenty years later, this is a dangerously and foolishly brave book. The last third of it is from the perspective of a character who is both female and aboriginal–in 1985, clearly, Mayne had no qualms whatsoever about either writing from the viewpoint of a [...]
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Mayne, William. Winter Quarters. London: Jonathan Cape, 1982.
The novel alternates between two children, a boy and a girl, as presented through an adult narrator telling about them in the third person (and often offering comments on and interpretations of them despite the focalization through them). Both are children of travelling folk (carnival people–possibly gypsies, although [...]
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