On an ordinary summer’s day in 1969, in a small Australian town, a new mother finds her baby missing from her cot. In this gothic novel, Cassandra Austin draws out the isolation and claustrophobia of new motherhood — and the judgement heaped upon ‘bad mothers’. My review of Cassandra Austin's novel, Like Mother, is up …
Wedding Puzzle, Sallie Muirden
I recently reviewed Sallie Muirden's gentle and thought-provoking book, Wedding Puzzle, for The Newtown Review of Books.
Dying in the first person, Nike Sulway
This is a powerful and extraordinarily beautiful story of family, love and sacrifice. Sulway has created a world we enter slowly, uncovering the past and its hurts in small steps. It draws the reader into a place of mystery and wonder as Samuel is brought face to face with an emissary, Ana, who brings news of his long-estranged twin brother.
No Crazy Lady here—Rosie Waterland’s clear-eyed reckoning of her life
My review of Rosie Waterland's Every lie I've ever told is up at the Newtown Review of Books now.
