The book unfolds hypnotically, with a handful of characters and linked scenes rather than any kind of propulsive plot. The central character has left the city to live in a small coastal community near where her son is imprisoned and has a hard-to-explain obsession with building a labyrinth. It's one to puzzle over - it will drift a An odd, dreamy book that feels loaded with complex meaning. I was strangely captivated by it - it dwells on grief and family, love and death and the making of things. Mesmerising yet disquieting, it shows Amanda Lohrey to be at the peak of her powers.moreĪn odd, dreamy book that feels loaded with complex meaning. It is also an examination of how art can be ruthlessly destructive, and restorative. The Labyrinth is a story of guilt and denial, of the fraught relationship between parents and children. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past. To create it-to navigate the path through her quandary-Erica will need the help of strangers. There, in a rundown shack by the ocean, she obsesses over building a labyrinth.
Trapped in her grief, Erica retreats from Sydney to a sleepy hamlet on the south coast, near where Daniel is serving his sentence. To create it-to navigate the path through her quandary-Erica will need the help o Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge.
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