This unlocks an emotional attachment via her deceased brothers, who did their own fossil hunting in the same Bow Wow Gorge.īack in 1847 Mellie hunted for dragons in the same gorge. Maybe The Fossil Hunter will become another Australian classic too?Ī dual timeline story set in 18, centering around PJ (Penelope) who visits a London museum and views fossils from near her own home back in Australia. Some how The Fossil Hunter reminded me of another Australia classic Picnic at Hanging Rock.young girls in the great rural-bush Australian landscape. Tea Cooper is a favourite author of mine and I eagerly await each new release. Once again a great read from Tea Cooper and I look forward to more incredible stories. It took me a while to get the connections for her brothers to the secrets of Bow Wow Gorge but I was not disappointed. I connected with all the characters, particularly Mellie and the life she led until Anthea entered her life. Expertly told using a dual time frame narrative structure, readers are led to the future by the events of the past. I was kept guessing about the secret and when it came to what actually happened at Bow Wow Gorge. So when PJ uncovers some unexpected remains, it seems as if the past is reaching into the present and she becomes determined to discover what really happened all that time agoĪ fascinating plot and subject matter (as expected with this author).
But the gorge has a sinister reputation - 70 years ago people disappeared. Looking for distraction, she finds a connection between a fossil at London's Natural History museum and her brothers which leads her to Bow Wow Gorge. When Penelope Jane Martindale arrives home from the battlefields of World War I with the intention of making her peace with her father and commemorating the death of her two younger brothers in the trenches, her reception is not as she had hoped. Soon, Mellie shares that dream for she loves fossil hunting too. She is convinced she will one day find proof the great sea dragons - the ichthyosaur and the plesiosaur - swam in the vast inland sea that millions of years ago covered her property at Bow Wow Gorge. Anthea is an amateur palaeontologist with a dream. In a bid to curb Mellie's overactive imagination, her benefactors send her to visit a family friend, Anthea Winstanley. The last thing Mellie Vale remembers before the fever takes her is running through the bush as a monster chases her - but no one believes her story.
A fossil discovered at London's Natural History Museum leads one woman back in time to nineteenth century Australia and a world of scientific discovery and dark secrets in this compelling historical mystery.
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