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The Styx

The Styx, contemporary Australian gothic fiction
Patricia Holland, author of The Styx
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  • The Styx, contemporary Australian gothic fiction
  • Patricia Holland, author of The Styx
by Patricia Holland
Published: 10 April, 2018 (3 years ago)
Category
Fiction
Author Website
http://patriciaholland.com.au
Author Bio
Patricia Holland was born in Liverpool, England, but has lived in Australia since the age of five, in Melbourne and on farms and cattle stations in Central and North Queensland. She now lives in a coastal town near Yeppoon in Central Queensland.
State or Region
Queensland - Central
Type of Book
PrintEbook
Year of Publication
2017
Publisher
Lacuna Publishing
ISBN
9781922198303

Everyone controls Sophie. She can’t walk and she can’t talk, but behind her disability hides a keen intelligence. Living on The Styx River cattle station with her father and a nanny, Sophie is acutely aware that she is a non-person. She feels as voiceless and isolated as the wallabies of The Wall, an eerie wilderness of basalt lava tubes forming a natural stone labyrinth that protects its remote lushness from anyone foolish enough to wander in.

Sophie’s mother Rose, as indigenous custodian, would take the young Sophie into the labyrinth and teach her its secrets. When a bitter divorce forces Rose to leave, Sophie is powerless to stop her grazier father from taking custody of both Sophie and The Wall.

Advances in computer technology enable Sophie to communicate, a fact she keeps secret from her father and his “cronies”. In Sophie’s presence, unaware she understands everything, they plot to build a multi-million dollar tourist resort in The Wall. The development will only go ahead if the rare wallabies are already extinct, so they hire roo shooters to help nature along.

In desperation Sophie writes Silent Scream, an anonymous blog that reveals the plot. When an environmental study team commissioned to find the wallabies goes missing, the rescuers appeal to Silent Scream for help. Raising awareness is one thing, but how can one impossibly disabled girl who can’t help herself, help save the lives of others?

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