Elliott, Sumner Locke. Careful, he might hear you, Sydney, N.S.W. : Picador, 1997.
Careful, he might hear you is the story of intense family relationships where two feuding sisters battle for custody of their nephew. Set in Sydney during the Great Depression six-year-old P.S. is an orphan who lives with his Aunt Lila. However all that is about to change. Now his Aunt Vanessa has decided to take proper care of him. The dominant and elegant Vanessa, returns from England to Australia to bring him up, take him away, and provokes a custodial court hearing. Present and past fuse in the alternating narrative here; there are whispered references which P.S. only dimly understands. The boy’s father briefly reappears and this serves in the interest of the child when Vanessa gives up and gives him back to Lila.
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