There wasn't a lot of love for last month's book, Wildlife by Richard Ford. People thought that the book relied on clumsy symbolism of the wildfire lurking over the horizon as a metaphor for the problems in boy's parents' relationship. I agree but I thought the way that the author talked about the boy's feelings as he started to realise that his parents had their own failings and agendas was really evocative for me and reminded me of my own experience growing up.
Our next book is When The Night Comes by Favel Parrett who has been a nominee for the Miles Franklin award (for her book Past The Shallows, not this one). She's a new Tasmanian writer and that seemed enough to get that book over the line.
See you at the All Nations on May 1!
