Well, two months later I’m finally composing this review-of-sorts. I then gave the book to my father, who was about to embark on a long haul trip back to Australia, and kept telling myself I’d write about it … soon. And because I couldn’t quite work out what it was about the book that I loved so much I couldn’t muster the creative energy to write a review. The book was absolutely enthralling in a way I could not put my finger on. I picked up a cheap copy from Waterstone’s earlier in the year and read it over the course of a dismal weekend in June. But then I heard lots of good things, mainly from British critics, about Peter Temple’s The Broken Shore and knew it was a book I had to track down. Fiction – paperback Quercus 400 pages 2007.Ĭrime novels set in modern day Australia are few and far between.
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