THE SUN WALKS DOWN by Fiona McFarlane

I am a few chapters in and enjoying this novel very much. As a lover of ekphrasis and art crossover, I find the cover spectacularly apt. I wanted to share some excerpts but there’s so much fodder, I might wait until the end.

In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly – newlyweds, landowners, farmers, mothers, artists, Indigenous trackers, cameleers, children, schoolteachers, widows, maids, policemen – explore their own relationships with the complex landscape unsettling history of the Flinders Ranges.