I do not think that I believe in ghosts, but just for this morning, just for the time it will take to ramble through this quiet city under clouds the colour of tin, or of pigeons wings, I am going to believe in them. Ordinary lives are revealed as extraordinary, as Carol Lefevre traces the stories of West Terrace Cemeterys littleknown inhabitants there is the tale of the man who fatally turned his back on a tiger, and the man who avoided one shipwreck only to perish in another there is the story of the young woman who came home from a dance and drank belladonna, and those who died at the hands of one of South Australias most notorious abortionists. Said to be the most poetic place in Adelaide, in this heritagelisted burial ground the beginnings of the colony of South Australia are still within reach. Amid a sea of weatherbleached monuments, the excavated remains of Australias oldest crematorium can be seen, and its quietest corner shelters the countrys first dedicated military cemetery. From archives, and headstones, the author recovers histories that time and weather threaten to obliterate. Quiet City is a book for everyone who has ever wandered through an old graveyard and wished its stones could speak.

Binding: Paperback;344 pages; Publisher: Wakefield Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 508.27 g; Dimensions: N/A

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