There are sections so tightly plotted you’ll be turning the pages with feverish anticipation, constantly asking: Who killed Laura Wishart?īeyond the exciting plot details, Jasper Jones is a novel about fear. Silvey writes with a kind of bravado that’ll have you gripped.
It’s a combination of the childish honesty of Scout Finch and the teen angst of Holden Caulfield that gives the novel such a powerful voice. Silvey’s first-person narration is well suited to the coming-of-age themes. Corrigan is jolted by the disappearance of Laura Wishart, with a climate of fear and mistrust as thick as the summer heat Charlie constantly complains about. He has become involved in the disposal of a murdered young woman, after Jasper Jones – a misunderstood Indigenous teen – enlisted his help. The narrator is Charlie Bucktin, a bookish teenager who is in a sticky situation. Jasper Jones is set in the 1960s, in fictional Corrigan, a small-minded country town. Reviewed by Claire Williams (Flourish Magazine)
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