![]() “ Look at us” says her friend “ finally on our way”. ![]() Taryn’s book about the physical, political, and personal threats to libraries is unexpectedly popular. ![]() Things eventuate, and the body of the murderer is found a few months after his release from prison. ![]() Taryn loved her sister and after years of dull grief organises revenge, not by her own hand, or even by an explicit request, but by involving a likely sort – a burly sympathetic hunter called the Muleskinner – in the story of her own ravaged heart. Many years later Beatrice is murdered, run down by a man who claims it is an accident but clearly had sinister motivation. The library is saved, Beatrice is burnt but recovers. Taryn and her sister Beatrice grew up in and around their grandfather’s library and witness a fire there, started by their grandfather’s normally meek assistant who is in the clutches of some kind of madness. ![]() It’s a story about Taryn Cornick of the Northovers, who writes stories about the beauty and vulnerability of libraries, whose dead sister loved stories, whose father acts out stories in far-off New Zealand, who was undone by her sister’s murder, who coyly arranges the killing of her sister’s killer and unknowingly sets other momentous things in motion. ‘The beautiful are cruel, the cruel are sad, the demons are capable of good.’ Maria McMillan reviews the new novel by Elizabeth Knox, bound to be one of the year’s biggest local releases.Įlizabeth Knox’s The Absolute Book has an awful lot going on. ![]()
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