It rises from a pool as bird-shaped vapour or rain droplets and can emanate steam or ice.Īt times the rain heron seems to give prosperity by bringing rain and changing the weather. The bird is transparent like blue rain and merges with the water as if they are one. The rain heron is the elusive symbol, the source of the teasing, tensile narrative thread. Characters who seem to be peripheral become important and take over the narrative. Gender and other roles confound expectations. The farmer is buffeted by extremes of weather Ren the hermit fights to survive on the mountain she loves Zoe, the girl, protects the secret of the squid ink and Lieutenant Harker, the soldier, hunts the rain heron.
Intricate strands and layers in The Rain Heron unfold to reveal absorbing, but seemingly disparate, tales of several strong females.
Flames is a unique story shrouded in a gothic, macabre Tasmanian setting.
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