The great John Murray’s response in the Literary Review, re. Julia Darling’s Pearl and other stories: ‘Julia wrote brilliantly about urban alienation and male violence, or the threat of it, but instead of doing it straight and serious, she made nightmarish comedy of it.’
Thanks to Frank Brinkley for his review of Julia Darling's Pearl and other stories. ‘By eschewing ornamentation and narrative complexity she seems to reach all the more directly the messy terrain of being alive.’ https://t.co/ENFqZxcHDW
Mid-winter is peak lyrebird time with the males singing for hours each day. I managed to snap this male displaying in the treetops yesterday afternoon and it turned a crap day into a good one 😍 #wildoz#SuperbLyrebird