As she watches her brother losing the battle with his memories, Rowan
wonders how long she can keep her own past at bay. The old family home
in Access Road, where Lionel, Roly and Rowan grew up, is crumbling
away--but after more than fifty years Lionel and Roly are back. Rowan
too, otherwise safe in her "upper crusty" suburb, is drawn more and more
strongly "out west." The past is dangerously alive. Clyde
Buckley--violent as a boy; enigmatic, subterranean as an old
man--returns to his childhood territory. What does he want? What crimes
does he hide? And how is Lionel involved? Rowan must abandon safety if
she is to find out....
Maurice Gee is a master storyteller. Access Road is at once a novel of
chilling tension and expansive humanity; both a beautifully crafted work
of literature and an effortlessly seductive family story.
