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Yet again Tim Winton has demonstrated just why he is regarded as one of the greatest Australian writers ever.
It may be that many Australians look at the same landscapes as Tim Winton and feel similar emotions and passions. They may love their country just as much as he. But there the comparison ends. Tim Winton’s ability to articulate what he is seeing and feeling are without peer. What’s more, such is the power of his writing, he leaves the reader feeling that he/she is seeing old familiar landscapes with new eyes and renewed insights.
This is a thought-provoking and brilliantly written memoir – I loved it and will return to it again and again.

A more recent, and of course male, version of Jill Ker Conway’s The Road to Coorain. Winton captures the rugged expansiveness of the Australian outdoors, and the yearning Australians feel in their blood, to spend more time outdoors than inside.

The author is renouned for his fiction, but this is pure memoir. I found his stories about specific experiences in specific places to be truly enlightening about what provided the background for his uniquely personal- feeling fiction!

Enjoyed this book from start to finish. This novel made me think more about the influence of where I grew up than anything I have ever read.

Thank you Tim Winton, a man of depth, wisdom and sensitivity. May his writing make us step up. We are interconnected with the environment. It can live without us, but we not without it. And yet we are the most dangerous to this fact and ultimately ourselves.

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