Author: Horsfield, Dorothy.
Title: Venom.
Description: Canberra Pandanus Books, 2005. Paperback square, very good condition, minimal edgewear. 305 pp. Australian novel about a young mother who joins an entomologist to find the funnel web spiders of Australia's high country. Grief, love, spiders and Federal politics are set against the beauty of an ancient landscape in this keenly observed novel that explores the fine line between human ambitions and weaknesses, and the venomous impulses we share with the spider world. The author was the wife of Australian journalist Paul Lyneham. SALE PRICE. ISBN: 1740761790

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