R_The Watching Lake

Elaine Forrestal

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The Watching Lake
(Second edition, 2002)

'Don't you know what a Min Min is? It's this spooky sort of light. It comes out of the lake on misty nights and tries to get people to follow it. It's not real.'
'But if it's not real, how did it drown Welsh Morgan's wife way back then?'

Bryn and his family have just moved to a new house by the lake. The area is beautiful, teeming with wildlife. But soon there are scars on the landscape where the houses are being built - bulldozers tear at the earth, the sound of machinery rends the air.

Once again the Min Min stirs ... And this time it has chosen Bryn.

ISBN 186368360-7

Above : The original cover and
Below the 2002 cover of the

"The Watching Lake"

The Watching Lake

New edition by Fremantle Arts Centre Press, Fremantle, 2002

The Watching Lake

... themes that will communicate powerfully
at different levels to all readers.

Jack Thomson English in Australia

Elaine Forrestal's prose has its own magical quality.

Janice Anderson Reading Time

Elaine Forrestal has cleverly interwoven the disparate elements of folklore, a child's developing sense of responsibility, the need to adapt to change and a menacing danger into a cohesive whole.

Margot Tyrrell Magpies.

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