Labyrinth: a pastoral. Amanda Lohrey. 2020.

Erica Marsden’s son, an artist, has been imprisoned for a monstrous act of revenge. Trapped in her grief, Erica retreats from Sydney to a sleepy hamlet on the south coast, near where Daniel is serving his sentence.

There in a rundown shack by the ocean, she obsesses over building a labyrinth. To create it - to navigate the path through her quandary - Erica will need the help of strangers. And that will require her to trust, and to reckon with her past. 

The Labyrinth is a story of guilt and denial, of the fraught relationship between parents and children. It is also an examination of how art can be ruthlessly destructive, and restorative.