Introducing new Australian novelist Favel Parrett, a name you'll be hearing a lot of in the ensuing month. I was given this book by a very astute Hachette rep (he who shall not be named) back in December last year and I was instantly sold on it by his sincere enthusiasm. Favel's beautiful prose swept me away and the story of three brothers and their tangled relationship with their widowed and tormented father had me hooked from the first page. I particularly felt strongly for the youngest boy Harry. If there was a way I could have extracted him from the pages and raised him as my own I would have. I was a little traumatised by the end but I felt richer for having met these characters.
- Natalie