Killing Darcy

by Melissa Lucashenko

Angry young Koori, Darcy Mango, is searching for his mob in Northern New South Wales when he takes a job on a horse stud farm. What secret does the old house hidden in the hills near Desperation Creek hold? Why does the camera found in the house take photographs of a hundred years before? It is Darcy's fate to find the answers.

Genres: Young Adult

230 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 1998

About the author

Melissa Lucashenko is an Australian writer of European and Goorie heritage. She received an honours degree in public policy from Griffith University in 1990. In 1997, she published her first novel Steam Pigs. It won the Dobbie Literary Award for Australian women’s fiction and was shortlisted for both the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award and the regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. Steam Pigs was followed by the Aurora Prize–winning Killing Darcy, a novel for teenagers, and Hard Yards, which was shortlisted for the 2001 Courier-Mail Book of the Year and the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Award. Too Flash, a teenage novel about class and friendship, was released in 2002. Her latest novel is Mullumbimby published by UQP. Melissa lives between Brisbane and the Bundjalung nation.

Reviews

[Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

After reading Too Much Lip I wanted to read more by ML.
This book did not disappoint ...well crafted story that evokes the problematic relationship between white and indigenous Australia that sadly remain today (some twenty years after this book was written).

[Sarah McCallan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dunno. I didn’t love it.