A Long Way From Home

Superb . . . A wild, strange, magical ride of a book.

Surely Australia’s greatest living novelist . . . Peter Carey’s best novel in years, maybe decades.

I couldn’t imagine that a car race could be so enthralling . . . Two rich, ripe voices, beautifully realised on the page, are the joy of the novel and at the heart of its achievement.

A writer at full throttle: Australia’s grim past collides with a gruelling car race in Peter Carey’s high-octane novel.

Carey’s eye for zestful storytelling is as sharp as ever . . . Loud and fleshy and hilarious.

‘The 14th novel by the two-time Booker-winner starts as a rattling good tale about a race and ends as a painful meditation on race itself. In between, there are 10,000 miles of Australian terrain to navigate and centuries of buried, bloody history. The narrative does a sudden, handbrake turn, and you may feel the book has lost its way, but in the hands of such a skilful driver no detour is entirely wasted.’