Wildlight, a novel by Robyn Mundy. In the wake of a family tragedy, the parents of year-old Stephanie have dragged her to remote Matsuyker Island for six. · Robyn is the author of The Nature of Ice, set in Antarctica, and Wildlight, set on remote Maatsuyker Island, off Tasmania’s southern coast (read a post about Wildlight here), and this new novel takes readers to another. Robyn Mundy evokes a place so real, I shivered while I read Cold Coast. This is the story of determined woman and the man who allows her t" Read more of this review» PM · see review/5.
Robyn Mundy's writing speaks to her preoccupation with wild places and their sway on human lives. In the preliminary stage of writing Wildlight, she and her partner spent four months living and working alone on Maatsuyker Island as volunteer caretakers and weather observers. Robyn Mundy is author of the novels Wildlight and The Nature of Ice, and co-author of the young readers' Epic Adventure: Epic www.doorway.ru works seasonally as an Assistant Expedition Leader for Aurora Expeditions. Robyn currently lives in Hobart where she teaches writing and is at work on a new novel. "Cold Coast by Robyn Mundy is inspired by the real life story of a young widow Wanny Woldstad, who in convinces trapper Anders Sæterdal to let her become his trapping partner for a season in Svalbard, Norway. Trapping was a wholly male domain and" Read more of this review».
If there is a link between The Nature of Ice and Wildlight, it is in the wild places that Robyn brings so beautifully to life in each—in the former, Antarctica; the latter, Maatsuyker Island. Robyn is intimately acquainted with both. Robyn Mundy’s novel Wildlight had me wishing to visit Maatsuyker Island (Maat) off the southern coast of Tasmania, despite its cold, wild, wet and windy nature. Sixteen-year-old Stephenie West is about to relocate there with her parents, as they become caretakers of the island. Robyn Mundy is author of the novels Wildlight and The Nature of Ice, and co-author of the young readers’ Epic Adventure: Epic Voyages. She works seasonally as an Assistant Expedition Leader for Aurora Expeditions.
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