The seduction of sand: TimeOut falls for Long, Hot Summer

[Barbara Anderson’s] “Long Hot Summer is a joy to read. Someone stops breathing in the final scene and the reader holds their breath as well. Like the rest of this cleverly patterned novel, it is unsentimental but moving, the comic comeuppance keenly anticipated and thoroughly deserved. Anderson deserves to be cherished too.”


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Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Amy Brown’s New Novel Inspired by Women and Art

Like many writers before her, New Zealand-born Amy Brown takes inspiration from the Australian feminist icon Stella Maria Miles Franklin in her captivating debut novel My Brilliant Sister – but instead…