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and he and his wife will not leave the beach until "the P and D Board
agrees to consult with the people in the district about the resort
scheme" (Marshall 396). In No Telephone to Heaven, Clare's struggle
and death give a voice to the landscape itself. As she dies, the narrative
fades away into a series of sounds that suggest the birds and insects of
the forest (208); the land speaks, and the tourists are forgotten.