A Tim Winton novel that I bought in a second hand shop in Byron Bay. There was a newspaper article in it about Tim Winton. That’s one of the things I love about buying books in second hand shops, you never know what you will find from the previous reader. It took me awhile to get through this hence the reason it has been such a long time since my last book entry. Not an easy read I have to say although I think Tim Winton is like that.

This book is set in a small, coastal, Western Australian town where many of Tim’s other books are set. The town’s primary industry is whaling but a local woman decides to join the protests against the whaling to the horror of many townspeople. The story then follows the lives of a few of these people and how their lives are constantly overlapping. This is a style I like in books and in movies. The characters were complex (except maybe the town mayor with whom I think Tim was a bit lazy) and the themes such as faith, marriage and aging were given the complexity they deserve but it lacked closure and at times I found myself feeling a bit lost and thinking, would you just get on it with it. In saying that overall I enjoyed it.