Reviews
"The book calls into question the popular myth that the family is a nurturing and loving place and reminds us, in timely fashion, that families can be destructive and dangerous environments. Davidson gives us a vivid and disturbing portrait of a family in which no one knows how to love properly." —Alex Miller
Author Biography
Jim Davidson is a historian, biographer and former editor of Meanjin (1975–82). He has been an academic and an opera critic, and the author of two prize-winning biographies Lyrebird rising: Louise Hanson-Dyer of Oiseau-Lyre, 1884-1962 and A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian WK Hancock. The latter won the Prime Minister’s Prize for History, a Western Australian Premier’s Award and the Age Book of the Year for non-fiction. He is also the co-author of Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia since 1870 (2000) and Moments in Time: A book of Australian postcards (2016).