Cirrus@Austlit

'Beautifully written and affecting, this is the true story of a young man caught in a world he can't control and how he finds a way to survive

'This compelling, moving tale of a singular individual is unlike anything I have ever read. As intimate and vivid as a novel, Tom Patterson has given beauty and meaning amid the sorrow.' - Malcolm Knox

'Hey mate, Pete and Steve have been talking to some people who live around the national park where Mark lives . . . nobody has seen him for months . . . We're about to head into the gorge . . . I'll let you know what we find . . .

'In 1972 Mark May is eighteen. He is bright, beautiful and has a scholarship to study law. Ten years later he descends alone into remote gorge country in north-western New South Wales. He lives in rough camps and stays for thirty-five years. Then, on a feeling, his brothers go looking for him.'

Source : publisher's blurb

'Nowra’s affection for his suburb is all through this book – offering Woolloomooloo as both a place of refuge and an ideal to aspire to.' (Introduction)

'The Shepherd‘s Hut is more than a novel: it has the shape and pattern of a very Australian, very modern, epic.

'Tim Winton can be hard on his characters. He drowned the Lambs’ favourite son, then only half gave him back. He sent Scully on a chase through Europe desperately looking for a woman who didn‘t want him. He made Pikelet seek redemption for the sins of others in the blood and guts of the ambulance service. But he really gives it to Jaxie Clackton. A dead mother. A violent, alcoholic father. A town that hates him. A love that humiliates him. And a name that almost means arsehole. Twice.' (Introduction)

'Clear observations and easy rhythms continue to give momentum in this final novel by Peter Corris.'