ISBN: 9781740510066
Blackgum Item Code: RH50
Title: Boys in the Island
Author: Christopher Koch
Imprint: Random House
RRP: $21.95
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The Boys in the Island is Christopher Koch's first ever novel,
a beautiful, lilting coming-of-age story set in the 1940s and 50s in Hobart and Melbourne

Francis Cullen, growing up in the island of Tasmania, is outwardly a very ordinary boy. But his inner life is dominated by dreams of a place he calls the Otherland: a transfigured world beyond the real one. In childhood, he glimpses it in the landscapes of his native land, and when he falls in love with a country girl, the dream is central to his feeling for her.