I have just finished reading this fabulous, quite lovely book by Robert Drewe. As Drewe remarks in his Author's Notes at the back of the book, this is a romance that touches on various elemental fancies in which he presents a stylised Wiltshire and environs (where the main character Will learns the art of "drowning" the land), East Africa and Western Australia. Here's "The Age" on the book: The romance of bringing water to the desert is at the heart of this amibtious and kaleidoscopic novel, beautifully written in prose as slippery and sensuous as the life-giving liquid itself.
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