Craig’s Spur by E. S. Madden

Craig’s Spur

by E. S. Madden

Readers Book Club, 1962, hardcover

Very Good Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, previous owners’ inscription and details on front endpaper, age toned pages, minor foxing, slight lean, dustjacket shows a little edge and shelf wear with a little rubbing, chipping and small tears (see photographs)

“In a passion of resentment, Muriel McGrath makes the sudden, fatal decision to leave her husband and their run-down property at Ellinsfield for good.  She bundles her two small sons into the car, then – to avoid the township – she swings off the highway to Melbourne and takes the seldom-used track over rugged Craig’s Spur.
From this one hasty but characteristic act of an angry woman, there springs a whole storm of dramatic events which are to involve many more destinies.  Human tragedies and joys, a murder charge, and a swelling torrent of hate, fear and love are climaxed by a wonderfully-described bush search for two little boys… a search that affects the searchers as profoundly and movingly as it does the lost children.”