Whoops, nearly let a month go past without updating this blog. Tamarisk Row was a sad sort of book, young boy growing up under the cloud of a father caught up in the vicious cycle of gambling. Then embarked on the very good, but chunky The Trout Opera; everything in that book that I like about reading Australian literature - the land, its history and its people. This one set in the Snowy River area, from 100 years and more ago, in Jindabyne, Dalgety as well as modern day Sydney, even Murwillumbah and Mt Warning, where we visited 18 months or so ago, in Northern NSW.I have now started reading The Passage by Vance Palmer, published in 1959. It's set on a coastal passage about a family who is scraping by living off fishing. The setting is tiny coastal settlements on the brink of subdivision and tourism. Good reading.
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