Past the Shallows
Hachette Australia, $26.99 pb, 272 pp, 9780733626579
Fiction
Past the Shallows by Favel Parrett
by Amy Baillieu •
The beauty and danger of the ocean and its unpredictable nature have long been fertile subjects for artists and writers, and the sea a popular and potent metaphor. In Favel Parrett’s trim, lyrical début novel Past the Shallows, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award,the sea is once again symbolic. In fact, nearly everything in this novel feels symbolic, sometimes distractingly so.
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