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My Heart is a Little Wild Thing

(Paperback)


Publishing Details

Full Title:

My Heart is a Little Wild Thing

Contributors:

By (Author) Nigel Featherstone

ISBN:

9781761150135

Publisher:

Ultimo Press

Imprint:

Ultimo Press

Publication Date:

4th May 2022

Country:

Australia

Classifications

Readership:

General

Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:

Fiction

Other Subjects:

Family life fiction
Modern and Contemporary romance

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

288

Dimensions:

Width 153mm, Height 234mm

Description

WiNNER 2022 Canberra Critics' Circle Award

Blood is thicker than water, but the heart is a little wild thing that cant be tamed.


The day after I tried to kill my mother, I tossed some clothes, a pair of hiking boots, a baseball cap and a few toiletries into my backpack, and left at dawn.

Patrick has always considered himself a good son. Willing to live his life to please his parents, his sense of duty paramount to his own desires and dreams. But as his mothers health continues to deteriorate and his siblings remain absent, he finds the ties that bind him to his mother begin to chafe.

After an argument leads to a violent act, he travels to a familiar country retreat to reflect on what his life could be and through a chance encounter with a rare animal and an intriguing stranger starts to wonder if perhaps it is not too late to let his heart run wild.

A story about family, love and the cost of freedom, My Heart is a Little Wild Thing serves as a reminder that we all deserve to pursue our dreams.

PRAISE FOR NIGEL FEATHERSTONE

A poignant and ultimately hopeful novel about how its never too late to find courage or connect with joy. I was captivated by the elegance of Featherstones prose and the quiet power of his voice. - Delia Falconer, author ofSigns and WondersandThe Service of Clouds

Epic in its intimacy... Its a triumph of a book about the timeless theme of how romance can be obstructed by a suffocating mother. - Peter Polites, author ofThe PillarsandDown The Hume

Entrancing, multifaceted, melancholic and yet full of joy, what ultimately makes this book sing is the sheer weight of human experience underpinning every one of its moving parts. - Sam Coley, author ofState Highway One

Beautiful and disarmingly honest, this is a searing meditation of an urgent quest for self-meaning and deep love and about what being a good child and a complete adult means. - Paul Daley, author and journalist

My Heart Is A Little Wild Thingis a brilliant and deeply evocative novel that breaks your heart and hints that, if you trust it enough, it will lovingly piece it back together. Powerful, tender, visceral and sublime a must-read piece of Australian literature. Holden Sheppard, author ofInvisible Boys

Nigel Featherstones latest novel is an intense emotional journey, across longing, loss, letting go and embracing the unknown. A reading experience to savour and revisit again and again. - Melinda Smith, author ofDrag Down to Unlock or Place an Emergency Call

My Heart Is A Little Wild Thingbeautifully explores the permutations of love of intimacy and sex, and of connection and belonging. This is a novel that will stay with me. - R.W.R. McDonald, author ofThe NancysandNancy Business

Featherstones writing rings with assurance, and echoes with love, memory and tenderness. Karen Viggers, author of The Lightkeepers Wife

Nigel Featherstone weaves a remarkable story of the possibilities of love, the cruelty of duty and the magic of place ... Featherstones novels are unforgettable gifts. Ben Hunter, Booktopia

Reviews

This novels voice is laconic, grim, masculine, withheld, but through the darkness, it also holds a sweetly earnest, genuine hope
* The Saturday Paper *
Nigel Featherstone weaves a remarkable story of the possibilities of love, the cruelty of duty and the magic of place ... Featherstones novels are unforgettable gifts. -- Ben Hunter * Booktopia *
This is a novel whose charm rests in part in the accumulation of quiet detail and perceptive observation. * The West Weekend *

Author Bio

Nigel Featherstone is the author of Bodies of Men, which waslong-listed for the 2020 ARA Historical Novel Prize, Highly Commended for the 2020 ACT Book of the Year, shortlisted in the 2019 Queensland Literary Awards, and received a 2019 Canberra Critics Circle Award. My Heart is a Little Wild Thing was awarded a 2022 Canberra Critics Circle Award, and Nigel was chosen as the ACT Artist of the Year for 2022. Nigel lives on the Southern Tablelands of New South Wales, and spends considerable time in Canberra, the national capital of Australia.

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