- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781864711158
- Imprint: Vintage Australia
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $32.99
Desert Fish
- Published: 1 March 2011
- ISBN: 9781864711158
- Imprint: Vintage Australia
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $32.99
Saywell’s writing is confident and compelling. Gilly is a complex psychological portrait of a girl forced into maturity …This book has echoes of Kenneth Cook’s Wake in Fright and the outback, no place for human habitation, is rendered with equal eeriness. The adolescent Gilly, searching for herself in the desert, is a memorable and poignant creation.
Helen Elliot, The Age
One of the joys of being a book reviewer is that occasionally you pick up a debut novel by an unfamiliar writer and realise that this is a major new voice. Pick of the week.
Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Sydney Morning Herald
Crisply written with a lean poetic sensibility and a creepiness that draws you in, Desert Fish is an impressive debut.
Alistair Jones, The Australian
A dark love story, Desert Fish is a powerful and unflinching debut novel.
The Maitland Mercury
Saywell’s simple language is loaded with meaning and, at times, poetically entrancing.
The Herald Sun