A review by skwinslow
Dirt Music by Tim Winton

5.0

The first book of 2006 to truly blow me away. In some ways, it reminded me of Anne Michael's Fugitive Pieces, both for its musical language and the theme of memory and forgetting. The two main characters are Luther Fox, an illegal fisherman struggling with the memories of the accident that killed his family, and Georgie Jutland, the wife of a prosperous fisherman. I found the novel difficult to put down; at the same time, I didn't want to read it too quickly. The descriptions of the Australian landscape are breathtaking.