Burning Island
Burning Island A father's obsession. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives with her reclusive father, a former lieutenant and governor's aide. A daughter's questEliza Grayling…
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Burning Island
A father's obsession. Too tall, too stern--too old, now--for marriage, she lives with her reclusive father, a former lieutenant and governor's aide. A daughter's questEliza Grayling has lived in Sydney all her life, born there some 32 years ago, when the colony itself was still an infant.
There is a shadow in his past, she knows. Eliza watches over him, in case he injures himself while drunk. Something obsessive.
Something to do with a man who bested him decades earlier.Then Srinivas, another figure from that dark past, offers Joshua Grayling the chance for a reckoning. The plan entails a sea voyage to the far south and an uncertain, possibly violent, outcome. Eliza is horrified: such a thing is out of the question for an elderly man, let alone a helpless drunkard who also happens to be blind.Unable to dissuade her father from his outlandish quest, Eliza