Dirt Music

By: Tim Winton

Narrated by: Suzi Dougherty

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 (prev. 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

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)

lacking authenticity

i don't think he understands a woman's perspective, and his female character was not believable .