![]() ![]() The old merry-go-round starts to disintegrate before his eyes. ![]() Rob is sent inland and when Rick returns, he is much changed. These are the idyllic days of a simple country childhood, set in an era past.Īnd then Rob’s favourite older cousin, Rick, leaves for World War II. ![]() In 1941, he is six years old, growing up among aunties and cousins against the dramatic and then remote backdrop of Geraldton. I am reading my old paperback copy, for the umpteenth time, as I sit on the merry-go-round under a giant fig tree in Geraldton.įor Stow was born in Geraldton, this is where his story is set, and for me it is still WA’s greatest novel. So begins Randolph Stow’s novel Merry-Go-Round in the Sea. The planks were polished by the bottoms of children, and on every one of the stays was a small unrusted section where the hands of adults had grasped and pulled to send the merry-go-round spinning.” “The merry-go-round had a centre post of cast iron, reddened a little by the salt air … ![]()
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