I have read several novels by Tim Winton that I really appreciated, and so I read this one too. It is the story of a young boy, Ort Flack, whose father becomes the victim of a car accident, and who now lives in their house, paralysed, and not aware of what's happening to him. The family gets the unexpected support from a religious man who helps out and moves into the house. From the perspective of the young man, the situation is both incomprehensible as welcome. He no longer understands his mother, nor his grandmother, who increasingly withdraws within herself, and least of all his older sister who lives in a permanent state of anger.
As usual, Winton's writing is strong, and he manages to create a very sophisticated novel full of ambiguity and shifting loyalties.
If you're interested, I can easily recommend "Cloud Street", "Breath" and "Dirt Music" by Winton.
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