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Set in Brisbane during the stultifying 1950s, and moving to grubby London in the 1970s,
Feather Man is about Sooky who, ignored and misunderstood by her parents, is encouraged to make herself scarce and visit Lionel, their elderly next door neighbour. After initially befriending Sooky, Lionel moves towards violation.
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'Feather Man' won the 2008 UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing in the New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards. The judges wrote: 'This is a novel written with a poet’s love of language. The prose dances and twists out of the darkness of Sookie’s childhood and into her emergence as an adult. Sookie sees the world in a completely idiosyncratic and unconventional way, never allowing us to paint her as a stereotyped victim of abuse. Rhyll McMaster has done what only the best writers do – she has used the richness of language to create new layers of story, giving us a novel that is witty, disturbing and completely alive.'
And I couldn't put it down!
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