The Shepherd's Hut - Hardcover

Winton, Tim

4.06

10,322 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1509863877 ISBN 13: 9781509863877

Publisher: Picador, 2018

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For years Jaxie Clackton has dreaded going home. His beloved mum is dead, and he wishes his dad was too, until one terrible moment leaves his life stripped to nothing. No one ever told Jaxie Clackton to be careful what he wishes for.

And so Jaxie runs. There’s just one person in the world who understands him, but to reach her he’ll have to cross the vast saltlands of Western Australia. It is a place that harbours criminals and threatens to kill those who haven't reckoned with its hot, waterless vastness. This is a journey only a dreamer – or a fugitive – would attempt.

Fierce and lyrical, The Shepherd's Hut by Tim Winton is a story of survival, solitude and unlikely friendship. Most of all it is about what it takes to keep hope alive in a parched and brutal world.

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Review:

It may be that this is his best book yet . . . triumphantly good . . . blisteringly original, The Times

A page-turning heartbreaker -- Emma Donoghue, author of Room

Outstanding . . . compulsively suspenseful . . . dazzlingly good -- Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

Exhilarating, compelling . . . elegiac, transcendent, Guardian

Wonderful. Brutal, agonizing, tender -- Sarah Winman, author of When God Was a Rabbit and Tin Man

Raw, brutal and merciless . . . Holden Caulfield, you have been eclipsed, Spectator

Remarkable . . . astonishing . . . extraordinary . . . Winton has written a novel which - and I can have no higher praise - I wish to re-read . . . it is clever, canny and complex, Scotland on Sunday

Winton’s novel is layered, lyrical and intense . . . unforgettable . . . heartstopping, Mail on Sunday

A transfixing performance -- Philip Hensher, Books of the Year, Spectator

A master novelist at the very peak of their craft. Full of heart and life and beauty -- Evie Wyld, author of All The Birds, Singing

Book Description:

The Shepherd's Hut is an exquisite, brutal coming of age novel. It tells the story of Jaxie, a boy on the run from his past, and explores the way love and hate combine to form a young man's beliefs.

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