This is a fantastic audiobook, absolutely riveting. I thought I knew this story, I've seen it dramatised, but never have I felt so invested in what thThis is a fantastic audiobook, absolutely riveting. I thought I knew this story, I've seen it dramatised, but never have I felt so invested in what that experience must have been like. I'm also a pushover for anything read in a Scot's accent, and in writing this review, I want to stop and just listen to it all over again. They seem so civilised until it all becomes terribly savage. Rizzio's murder was a turning point in Mary Queen of Scot's demise and it's compelling being a fly on the wall in this telling. Highly recommended. ...more
Really not liking the third person narration about the awful things that a young girl's psychopathic brothDNF at page 27
2021 Stella Prize Shortlist
Really not liking the third person narration about the awful things that a young girl's psychopathic brother and unsympathetic family are putting her through. Don't have the head space for this at the moment. back to the library with it. ...more
This book is quite a triumph! Set during a meltingly hot catastrophic bushfire, a group of people, not all known to each other, watch a production of SThis book is quite a triumph! Set during a meltingly hot catastrophic bushfire, a group of people, not all known to each other, watch a production of Samuel Beckett's Happy Days, in a Melbourne theatre. In Happy Days, a women, Winnie, is disappearing into a mound that is strewn with the debris of the contents of her handbag, her companion Willie, sits by her unable or unwilling to extract her from the mound. Winnie performs all sorts of musings from her mound. The play is strewn with as many metaphors as there are Winnie's belongings scattered on the mound. We sit through each person's musings while they are sitting through the Play, most of them as oblivious to the bushfire wracking havoc on the outskirts of Melbourne as Winnie is to her own predicament. It's very well pulled off, loads to think about and unpack. I hope to see this novel on both The Stella and The Miles Franklin longlist in 2022. Highly recommended. ...more
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