Keeping Faith
Transit Lounge $29.95 pb, 233 pp
Fiction
Keeping Faith by Roger Averill
by Adam Rivett •
Keeping Faith, Roger Averill’s first novel after his non-fiction début, Boy He Cry: An island odyssey (2009), is a quiet and resonant piece of work. Befitting a novel set partly in a labour ward and beginning with a description of a stillborn baby, it proceeds with the knowledge that finding the right words can be difficult. It speaks carefully and tactfully, in a spare language of great focus.
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