 First edition | |
| Author | Sarah Armstrong |
|---|---|
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Allen & Unwin, Australia |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Media type | Print (Paperback) |
| Pages | 218 |
| ISBN | 1741143691 |
| Followed by | His Other House |
Salt Rain is a 2004 novel by Australian novelist Sarah Armstrong. [1]
After the disappearance of her mother Mae, fourteen-year-old Allie Curran goes to live with her aunt Julia in the small dairy farm where Mae grew up. Allie slowly comes to learn about her heritage, her family, and her mother's story. A reversal of the classic Australian theme of a child lost in the bush.
A reviewer for Publishers Weekly noted: "The novel's setting, a rainy farming valley in northern Australia, makes for effective atmosphere, but the backward-looking narrative moves slowly, mired in Allie's memories of Mae." [2]
In Kirkus Reviews the writer agreed with that assessment: "Armstrong is talented, but her emotional delicacy is in danger of drowning in the portentous atmospherics." [3]
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