The House in the Rainforest
UQP, 238pp, $12.95pb
Fiction
Bête noire of the self
by Vashti Farrer •
Sophie Masson’s first novel deals with the probing of emotional wounds. It alternates from present to past as a journalist goes back to her village to write a story on a Family Court tragedy about people with whom her past is inexorably entangled. Set in northern New South Wales and Sydney, it examines the slow death of the rainforest areas and their rebirth as alternative lifestyle habitats for people fleeing the city.
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The House in the Rainforest
by Sophie Masson
UQP, 238pp, $12.95pb
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