Josephine Rowe is one of Australia’s best writers working today, and one of the finest sentence-writers in the English language!

Many people first encountered her through her short story collection, Tarcutta Wake, and was blown away by her exquisite stories, which were unlike anything from an Australian writer.

As watts points out, the precision she brings to the writing of her short stories lends itself to her novel, A Loving, Faithful Animal, is impeccable!

Told from the perspective of multiple members of the same family, who are all dealing with the sometimes violent, and sometimes absent, presence of their Vietnam War veteran father, the book proceeds in sparse, knife-sharp sections.

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