Finn's Folly

by Ivan Southall

Alison jolted awake, pitched hard against her safety belt. 'Sorry, love,' her father muttered, 'I've got myself lost.'
Fog. A country road in Australia. A single night during which a road accident and the events surrounding it involve five young people and five adults in a drama of life - and death - that changes each of their lives.

Genres: Young Adult

1 pages, Paperback

Published May 1, 1983

About the author

Ivan Southall was an award-winning Australian writer of young-adult fiction and non-fiction. He was the first and still the only Australian to win the Carnegie Medal for children's literature. His books include Hills End, Ash Road, Josh, and Let the Balloon Go. Also notable is Fly West, a book of true stories based on his experiences flying in Short Sunderland flying boats during the Second World War.

Winner of the Dromkeen Medal (2003).

Reviews

[Sarah Thornton]

I wasn't quite expecting it to end there.

But every rollover I've seen kind of does. But not so personally. All I see is the cleanup, the bodies shifted. I don't follow up to see who survived and who didn't, and I'm usually fortunate enough not to know anyone involved. There's ones that stay with you, though. The little bodies that follow you home.

Finding out the way these lives intersected, and leaving it a sinister note for at least two of the characters was a dark but realistic choice.

This one will stick around for a while.

[Samuel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Slightly weird.

[Judio · Rating 1 out of 5]

A terribly depressing book.

[Jo]

Can't remember - maybe read again?