Cirrus@Austlit

'Shannon Murphy’s first feature film boasts a bleak storyline lightened by comic moments delivered by wonderfully cast leads, writes Philippa Hawker'

'The contemporary literary imagination more and more figures the future as a place where quality of life is worse than it is now. Environmental catastrophe, climate change and now pandemics feature in the scaffolding we use to predict what the world beyond us will be like.' (Introduction)

'It is almost wicked, the pleasure Kate Grenville takes in piercing the bubble of impeccability that surrounds the historical figure of Elizabeth Macarthur.'