In the middle of the Bright’s cattle station is the grave of a stockman. After living life so long set apart, how would the Bright’s react to walking down a busy street, a traffic jam, a long line a grocery store?Īt the center but also in the background of The Lost Man is the story of the stockman. I also wondered if the Bright’s could survive in a major city. The constant isolation would be suffocating. Your closest neighbor four hours away, stores and gas stations three hours away - this seems almost unimaginable. Not only with graphic descriptions of the outback but also descriptions which invoke readers to feel what the characters are experiencing.Ĭould I survive in the outback? This question lingered while I read The Lost Man. As always, Harper does a fantastic job transporting readers into the lives of her characters. A landscape so unforgiving that skin cancer scares are normal, flooding can trap people in their homes for months, and small periods of time in the sun can lead to death. Life is hard for the Bright family and all those who live in the outback of Queensland Australia. Did the hard life of the outback drive his brother to suicide or is something more sinister at play? Nathan, the oldest of the Bright bothers has his qualms and begins to consider Cameron’s life. Cameron’s body is examined, but there are no obvious injuries and no witnesses. Cameron’s body is found near a grave on the family’s property. When Cameron fails to meet up with Bub to complete some repairs on the property as planned, the family requests help finding Cameron. Although the brothers are neighbors, they live four hours apart. The Bright brothers Nathan, Cameron, and Bub are heirs to a cattle station in Queensland Australia. Filled with shocking revelations, enduring and relatable characters The Lost Man will have readers longing to know the conclusion but also craving more, not wanting the story to end. The Lost Man tells the story of an isolated family and they're extremely complex dynamic. Each new release by Harper immediately becomes my new favorite, cementing Harper as one of my favorite authors of all time. I will start this review out with a bit of advice: if you have never read a book by Jane Harper you are truly and completely missing out and you should remedy this immediately. Did he lose hope and walk to his death? Because if he didn’t, the isolation of the outback leaves few suspects…

The Bright family’s quiet existence is thrown into grief and anguish. But today, the scant shadow it casts was the last hope for their middle brother, Cameron. They are at the stockman’s grave, a landmark so old, no one can remember who is buried there. Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outback Queensland, in this stunning new standalone novel from New York Timesbestseller Jane Harper

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