![]() " It is Mary who you will miss like a sister. ![]() when the final page is turned." The Australian gives savour to a highly enjoyable and unusual yarn" Sydney Morning Herald Swinging from Mary's hopes and disappointments, both domestic and romantic, to the challenges that beset their tiny whaling operation, Rush Oh! is a celebration of an extraordinary episode in Australian history, when a family of whalers formed a fond, unique allegiance with a pod of frisky Killer whales - and in particular, a Killer whale named Tom. But hers is not the only romance to blossom amidst the blubber. It's a season marked not only by the sparsity of whales and the vagaries of weather, but also by the arrival of John Beck, an itinerant whale man with a murky past, on whom Mary promptly develops an all-consuming crush. When Mary Davidson, the eldest daughter of a whaling family in Eden, New South Wales, sets out to chronicle the particularly difficult season of 1908, the story she tells is poignant and hilarious, filled with drama and misadventure. "Hugely funny and peopled with a cast of characters I came to treasure like my own friends, Rush Oh! reminded me why I love reading." Hannah Kent, bestselling author of Burial Rites The stories could not, arguably, be more different, but whilst reading both I could relax, knowing that I was in the capable hands of a great author. ![]() The captivating debut novel from the winner of the Camera D'Or I so enjoyed Australian author Shirley Barrett's The Bus on Thursday that I immediately borrowed her debut novel, Rush Oh, on my next visit to the library. ![]()
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