Review: Fiona McFarlane’s masterful second novel is set in the late-19th century and encompasses a huge, kaleidoscopic cast
” sees the Sydney-born author working on a considerably grander scale. She swaps the close confines of Ruth’s New South Wales beach house for the dry and torrid expanse of the Australian outback. She also sets her book in the late 19th century and fills it with a huge, kaleidoscopic cast. What unites both novels is McFarlane’s masterful storytelling, not least her ability to make her reader care about a character’s fate.
McFarlane also ensures that her novel is as much about place as it is about people. She expertly maps the lay of the land and allows us to see it the same way her Indigenous trackers do, not as vast, empty, open wilderness but rather as fertile terrain “dense with motion,” rich in history and packed full of flora and fauna, water and minerals, ancestors and spirits.
Malcolm Forbes is a freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Economist, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and the New Republic.
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