8 Quotes by Jenny Ackland

It was children who got possessed by the spirits most easily.

She was inbetween, with her childhood at the back of her and something illogical and confusing that loomed in front.

You carry your past with you and along the way it repeats.

The Mallee floor discombobulated the young Lenore and Edgar.

Memories get you where they want you, not the other way around.

The book said that people were small gods filled with the power of the Almighty and able to enact their own lives, dispense wisdom and justice.

To stand by and watch her cool interactions with others – even adults – was thrilling for a boy like Peter. He was someone who listened to the grown-ups and did what they told him. He’d realised the adult way was not a choice but a rule until you were a grown-up yourself and got your own turn. But Olive May Lovelock, she was taking her turn now.

As the years started to pull behind her like toffee, her mind always managed to find itself at her uncle and aunt’s farm. And whenever she returned to those dark sticky years, it was still surprising how it all unravelled so quickly, the summer she turned twelve.