Holden Walker reviews Thanks for Having Me by Emma Darragh

Thanks for Having Me

By Emma Darragh

Allen & Unwin

Reviewed by HOLDEN WALKER

I cannot say I’ve ever had the eureka moment in which I found myself lost in a novel that felt like it had been written for me or had been written about the world I knew personally. Perhaps my interest in Australian fiction has unintentionally favoured rural towns, characterised by their isolation and unforgiving natural landscapes. Although these stories come close to offering something familiar, their small-town melodramas still feel worlds apart, for I do not know them in the same way I know the lower

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