Wild Light Calendars & Diaries In old age

In old age

Mid-winter frost covers relict pandanis and sedges at Navarre Plains

Dr Ian Broinowski

Dwarf pencil pines grow on the fire-protected lee side of an alpine tarn

Wild Light Calendars & Diaries In old ageWild Light Robyn Mundy Softcover Sixteen year old Stephanie West has been dragged from Sydney to remote Maatsuyker Island off the coast of Tasmania by her parents, hoping to recapture a childhood idyll and come to terms with their grief over the death of Steph's twin brother. Cut off from friends and the comforts of home, exiled to a lonely fortress and a lighthouse that bears the brunt of savage storms, the months ahead look to be filled with ghosts