The Labyrinth by Amanda Lohrey

The Labyrinth

A Pastoral

by Amanda Lohrey

Text Publishing, 2021, ISBN 9781922330109, large C-format paperback

Near Fine Condition, a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges, corners and covers, no inscriptions (see photographs)

“First the making – I recalled my father’s words: the cure for many ills is to build something – and then the repetition, the going over and over so that time would rupture and be stopped in its flow… Since my past and my future were hitched to my son’s life sentence, I felt that if I stepped outside the present I risked being turned to stone.
Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge.  Trapped in her grief, Erica retreats from Sydney to a sleepy hamlet on the south coast, near where Daniel is serving his sentence.
There, in a rundown shack by the ocean, she obsesses over building a labyrinth.”