Still | Matt Nable 🦅

If this gorgeous cover isn’t enough to make you grab the book off the shelf in stores today then hearing it is an evocative, confronting and page-turning thriller from an Australian writer that screams THE DRY and SCRUBLANDS you should be jumping on the couch Tom Cruise style!

Having recently discovered a love of Australian atmospheric novels this one literally had my skin prickling from the heat and humidity, my eyes burning with the rawness of Darwin 1963.

This is a true work of art, the calm before the storm in the lives of the women the book centres around, the corruption and racism running deep through the core of Darwin in the 60s.

I loved Charlottes character, having just read Like Mother (see my last post!) which was similarly set in a small Australian town in the 60s I am really starting to get feel for the oppression women faced 60 years ago and the rise of feminism to break those boundaries.

There are some definite trigger warnings in this book - alcoholism, racism, brutal violence, minded, corruption.

Thank you to Hatchette, NetGalley and the author for my ARC in exchange for this honest review and promotion 🧡

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