The Body in the Clouds : A Novel (Paperback)

from oldblack

Ashley Hay started out writing non-fiction and this is amply demonstrated in this novel. It reads as though an historian is trying to write a book about the Sydney Harbour Bridge but make a basically boring subject interesting. She only half-succeeds. The subject remains basically boring, the cha...

from CloggieDownunder

"The Body in the Clouds", by Ashley Hay, has been described as a luminous novel: this is an apt description. It is full of rich imagery which captures the mood of the place and the time. The characters, while often looking at life and events with quite a different perspective from the rest of us,...

from CloggieDownunder

"The Body in the Clouds", by Ashley Hay, has been described as a luminous novel: this is an apt description. It is full of rich imagery which captures the mood of the place and the time. The characters, while often looking at life and events with quite a different perspective from the rest of us,...