I have read a few of David Malouf's books now and in the past I found that his novels got off to an incredibly compelling start but weren't completely able to live up to that with their endings. I still enjoyed them (I am referring primarily to The Great World and Remembering Babylon) but there ...
“Maggie,” he shouted. “Maaggieee!” The ten-geared blue-and-gold Galaxy had been propped against the panelled wall of the staircase and was sprawled now on its side in the hallway outside his room, like a giant insect that had blundered in and expired there, or a stunned, iridescent angel—one more...
That was how Janet thought of it, though in fact Mrs Hutchence kept up a continuous slow talk – it was the only time she did – which was not meant to tell you things – that was all by-the-way – or to do anything at all in fact but be a soothing noise in which the bees, Mrs Hutchence herself, and ...