Dirt Music by Tim Winton

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself
stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead
mother she can never replace. Her days have fallen into domestic tedium and 
social isolation. Her nights are a blur of vodka and pointless loitering in
cyberspace. Leached of all confidence, Georgie has lost her way; she barely
recognises herself.

One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she looks up from the computer
screen to see a shadow lurking on the beach below, and a dangerous new
element enters her life. Luther Fox, the local poacher. Outcast.

So begins an unlikely alliance. Set in the wild landscape of Western Australia, this 
is a novel about the odds of breaking with the past, a love story about people stifled
by grief or regret, whose dreams are lost, whose hopes have dried up. It's a journey
across landscapes within and without, about the music that sometimes arises
from the dust.

In prose as haunting and beautiful as its western setting, Dirt Music confirms
Tim Winton's status as the pre-eminent Australian novelist of his generation.

Genres: Australia - Literary Fiction - Contemporary Fiction - Australian Author
Condition: Very good
Published: 2001 by Picador Pan Macmillan Australia
Pages: 465
ISBN: 0330363239
Weight: 780g