Thursday's Child [WorldCat Entities]

"Flute's family struggles to cope with life on the hot, dusty land. Her younger brother Tin seeks refuge in the contrast of an ancient subterranean world, a world that nutures but - as disturbing events reveal- can also kill."
"A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground."@en
"A young woman, looking back on her childhood, recounts her farm family's poverty, her father's cowardice, and her younger brother's obsession for digging tunnels and living underground."
"Through the long years of the Great Depression, Harper Flute watches with a child's clear eyes her family's struggle to survive in a hot and impoverished landscape. As life on the surface grows harsher, her brother Tin escapes ever deeper into a subterranean world of darkness and troubling secrets, until his memory becomes a myth barely whispered around the countryside."@en
"Als een Australische jongen een schuilplaats voor zichzelf graaft, uitmondend in een heel tunnelstelsel, is dat het begin van een reeks tegenslagen voor zijn familie."

Thursday's Child