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Little World
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Little World

By: Josephine Rowe
Narrated by: Josephine Rowe
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'He has no notion of how to care for a saint. Even a small one. Does not even believe. Still. Catholic or not. You don't turn away a saint.'

In the north-western corner of 1950s Australia, a saint arrives at the home of a retired engineer, who unwittingly becomes her custodian. A girl of indeterminate age, her body remains as it was when she died, incorruptible. And though no one knows it, she is conscious, reflecting on past and present.

Little World stretches across continents and eras – from the Canal Zone in Panama and the island of Nauru all the way to the onset of Covid in contemporary Victoria. Beautiful, rich and strange, it weaves a tale of interconnected fates as characters grapple with the unknowable, and in this way come face to face with their deepest needs.

©2025 Josephine Rowe (P)2025 Bolinda Publishing Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Women's Fiction World Literature

Critic Reviews

'Little World holds tenderness, rage, faith and grace, and it does so in language – so precise, so exacting – it seems, at once, to cut through and join together the complexities of our relations. Each new work from Josephine Rowe is a revelation.' (Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing)
'Pacey and engaging as well as poetic.' (Ash Davida Jane, Books+Publishing)
'Grandly and enduringly enigmatic.' (The Australian Book Review)
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