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Can I read The Lost Child on EtoBox?
The Lost Child by McCourt, Suzanne is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Lost Child about?
From the headland, we look across to the lighthouse on Seal Island where Mr Hammett has to take the gas bottle to keep the light flashing at night. Aunt Cele says there is no land between us and the bottom of the world where everything is white ice and there are penguins as big as men, but I know this already because Dunc has told me. Sylvie is five. It's the 1950s and she lives in Burley Point, a fishing village south of the Coorong on Australia's wild southern coast. She worships her older brother Dunc. She tries to make sense of her brooding mother, and her moody father who abandons the family to visit The Trollop, Layle Lewis, who lives across the lagoon. It's hard to keep secrets in a small town, but when Dunc goes missing, Sylvie is terrified that she is the cause. Now her father is angry all the time; her mother won't leave the house or stop cleaning. The bush and the birds and the endless beach are Sylvie's only salvation, apart from her teacher, Miss Taylor. In the tradition of the novels of Anne Tyler and Eudora Welty, The Lost Child is a beautifully written story about family and identity and growing up. Sylvie is a charming narrator with a big heart and a sharp eye for
Who reads The Lost Child?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- McCourt, Suzanne
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Published
- 2014
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781922147783
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Psychology
- Rating
- 3.59 / 5 (121 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14