Feather Man
First edition
AuthorRhyll McMaster
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherBrandl and Schlesinger, Australia
Publication date
2007
Media typePrint Paperback
Pages309
ISBN9781876040833

Feather Man (2007) is a novel by Australian author Rhyll McMaster. It won the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award for Best Novel in 2008.

Plot summary

This is a coming-of-age novel that follows the story of Sooky from a Brisbane suburb in the 1950s until her adulthood in London in the 1970s.

Reviews

Kerryn Goldsworthy in The Australian stated: "This novel is essentially a Bildungsroman, in which a young person grows up and learns about the ways of the world, but here it's enlivened by a genuine mystery, a slender but powerful narrative thread working away deep in the background of the story." She concluded: "Feather Man is not a pleasant or reassuring book, but it's written with great confidence and lyrical intensity, and most Australian readers will recognise in its pages something of their own time and place."[1]

Awards and nominations

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