Books by Jane Rawson

“I find it a very exciting book. The author’s ancestor, George Hills, survived this shipwreck as a young man. She has taken that story and fictionalised it. So: he survives the shipwreck, but has this very strange embrace in the ocean with a mystery woman before he is saved. She’s gone. He doesn’t know what happened to her. He attempts to live a normal life. Gets married to someone really lovely, they have children, and their life moves through an unremarkable trajectory, though marked by extreme grief. But there’s someone with him, and it’s not just that he’s suffering from PTSD. He’s uneasy. He has the sense that he’s been followed, and he has—by a space entity. It almost sounds like a creative writing prompt or something, but it’s done so skilfully.” Read more...

The Best Australian Historical Fiction

Kate Kruimink, Novelist