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Dirt Music

By: Tim Winton
Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty
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Tim Winton's classic love song to land and place, full of unforgettable characters, is now a feature film starring Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Macdonald and David Wenham.

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At 40, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrimination. One morning, in the boozy pre-dawn gloom, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below - a loner called Luther Fox, with danger in his wake.

2002, Miles Franklin Literary Award, Winner

2002, NSW Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, Winner

2002, The Man Booker Prize, Short-listed

2001, Western Australian Premier's Book Awards, Winner

2001, Good Reading Award, Winner

2002, Kiriyama Pacific Rim Book Prize Fiction, Short-listed

2002, BookPeople (formerly ABA) Book of the Year Award, Winner

©2001 Tim Winton (P)2002 Bolinda Publishing Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Women's Fiction

Critic Reviews

"Mr Winton's prose is irresistible." (The New York Times Book Review)

"Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist, full stop." (The Times)

"Winton keeps writing fiction that makes the novel feel alive to a continent of possibilities." (Evening Standard)
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And Western Australia’s rugged unforgiving magnificence. Suzi is my favourite narrator and I enjoyed every moment

Beautiful descriptions of life’s complexity

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Once again TW doesn’t fail to impress. Love his books. All of them. Working my way through them all.

Excellent. Again

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I love outback Australia. I enjoy the beaches. I live for a road trip. I like novels that involve twists, love and suspense. Dirt Music by Tim Winton captures all of these and more. I thoroughly recommend this Audible version. I particularly liked the narrator. This person is to be commended for her work. She brings the voice of the main character to life.

A Gripping Tale

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This book took me to a world I couldn't have dreamed up. Such beautiful imagery, I particularly liked the last few chapters that brought everything together.

Exquisite imagery of country and a different way of life.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.