Book description
Fred Scully has decided to leave Australia to carve a new life for
himself and his young family in Ireland. He labours alone to make their
dilapidated cottage habitable, but when he arrives at the airport to
pick up his wife and child, only his small daughter steps off the plane.
So begins Scully’s desperate odyssey across Europe, searching for the
one person he thought he'd never lose.
'A brilliant reflection on the instability of personality and memory’
Daily Telegraph
‘Makes the senses jump. Concentrated, passionate, invigorating’ Independent
Tim Winton was born in Perth in 1960. His work includes novels,
collections of stories, non-fiction and books for children. He has won
the miles Franklin Award three times, and been twice shortlisted for the
Booker Prize, for The Riders
(1995) and Dirt Music
(2002).
