Kath Walters

Beautifully written, disturbing story

Revisado: 09-10-15

A powerful evocative story that I found disturbing and possibly to rare to be believable in the end. Sensational performance and worth listening to decide for yourself.

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Thoroughly enchanting

Revisado: 04-21-15

A lovely story that moves apace and keeps you guessing to the end, delightfully performed with ace characters - outlandish but completely believable. Vivid. Funny. Self aware.

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Could be good but I'll never find out

Revisado: 04-21-15

This award winning story is probably absolutely compelling but the performance by the author is just unlistenable. A thin voice that stumbles through the text and makes the main character almost impossible to like. Just shows what an incredible difference a good performance makes.

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Long winded and guessable from the outset

Revisado: 04-21-15

Beautifully performed, but unfortunately a hackneyed plot and character development. Main man is a horrible guy who doesn't change despite his experiences. Kid is loveable but completely unlikely and unrealistic.

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Predictable and boring

Revisado: 04-21-15

The worst kind of romance. Characters are stereotypes. Dialogue cringeworthy. If you want suspension of disbelief this story is not for you

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Brilliant story, beautifully read

Revisado: 11-04-14

Evocative, powerful and gripping. Tragedies so easily slip into our lives and leave us wondering how.

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Six stars

Revisado: 05-27-14

Beautiful, precious book. A real and brave story but so gemlike, shining with wisdom and humility. Amid the mingled stories of two women, a teenage girl writing about her life being bullied at school in her diary and and middle-aged ex-New Yorker suffering writer's block, are so many ideas and themes: age, fate, Japanese Zazen practice, suicide, war, quantum physics, and honesty ... All carried along. beautifully in the powerful and authentic voices of the young woman and her older reader.
The author's reading voice is mesmerising.
You'll love this story. Like all beautiful things, it is an endless surprise.

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Marvellously original characters

Revisado: 05-20-14

Ellen, the central character of this delightful, funny and elegant story, is refreshingly different. Caught in a relentless self-awareness that therapists must find so hard to shrug off, she is charming, disarming and sometimes very funny. Here are people who, like so many of us, try to live good and careful lives, but run adrift without really knowing why. But Ellen collects herself and presses on, finding a way through with her mix of philosophy, restraint and willingness. The very wholesomeness of her expectations keeps us taught with fear of their failure.
The stalker in this story, Ellen's opposite, is skilfully and compassionately drawn and remarkably real and familiar to us as readers. Who among us has not been at least some way down the path of the stalker? We are taken into her world of pain and injustice but not left to find our own way out.
Many levels of emotion, humour and philosophical exploration in this clean, gracious story,

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The lives of the obsessed

Revisado: 05-20-14

Virginia Duigan's lovely prose and vivid expression carried me through the lives of this small group of old school creatives for whom art means obsession and self-focus and love means all or nothing. Her scheming characters left me feeling little joy, but I was drawn into their world by Duigan's skilful handling of the story as it unfolds. The central theme - of the biographer as both an observer and alchemist in the lives of those he or she portrays --is a fascinating one. The end was a satisfying one, but I wanted to like these troubled, intense group of artists much more than I did.

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A magnificent tale of twists and turns

Revisado: 02-05-14

A marvellous swag of characters who intertwine in a plot that would have lost me if not for its sharply incised protagonists. You'll love the journey.

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