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Like a deal of Astley's fiction, *It's Raining in Mango *is set in north Queensland, an inhospitable locale in many ways but one which the Laffey family of Mango find compelling and to which they are drawn back after their half-hearted forays into urban life. The book is written in the saga form, spanning four generations from 1861 to the mid-1980s, though the path from past to present is neither straight nor defined. It is, rather, a broader and interwoven series of relationships in which the generations of the past continue to inform the present and all meld in the land and landscape. As Connie Laffey puts it: 'So closely meshed all of us, the nature of our closeness bound up with this place. With family.'The novel opens in the early 1980s with Connie Lafey and her middle-aged son, Reever, protesting against development which is decimating to the rainforest in the Mango area. Connie, anxious about Reever's safety—he has chained himself fifty feet up a celerywood tree—heads off to find help when she falls and concusses herself. The attendant delirium is the starting point for the narrative saga as the past and present converge in Connie's reverie. The narrative transports us back

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Author

Astley, Thea

Publisher

Penguin Books Australia Ltd

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780140121384

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.55 / 5 (294 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13