Join us for a Wellington bookwarming to celebrate publication this month of The Hope Fault, a novel of families and faultlines. When: 6pm to 7.30pm, Tuesday 28 March Where: Meow, 9 Edward St, Wellington (need a map?) The Hope Fault is a celebration of the complexities of family: aunties and steps and exes; parents and partners who are … Read more…
About Tracy Farr
Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews The Hope Fault for SMH, The Age
Kerryn Goldsworthy’s review of The Hope Fault was published in The Saturday Age, Sydney Morning Herald (pictured) and Canberra Times on 25 March 2017 (and published online 24 March). … the novel is about the way we live our daily emotional lives and accommodate whatever happens to us, and [Farr] cleverly uses the solid ground of a particular house as a … Read more…
The Hope Fault on the map – reviews, interviews, events
My second novel, The Hope Fault, was published this month, and it’s been a strange and wonderful few weeks watching it start to make its way onto the map of the big wide world of books. Here are some highlights, and a reminder to join us in Wellington on 28 March to celebrate the novel’s publication. Reviews Pip Adam’s lovely long-form … Read more…
The Hope Fault: interview for Bookenz on PlainsFM radio
I spoke with Morrin Rout for her Bookenz programme on PlainsFM. We talked about some of the New Zealand connections in The Hope Fault, and the impact a visit to Christchurch had on the writing of the novel. Listen to the interview online via Access Radio, or go to Bookenz on iTunes and select the 21-03-2017 episode (Richard Wooley and … Read more…
Pip Adam reviews The Hope Fault for The Pantograph Punch
Pip Adam’s long-form review (read it online) of The Hope Fault was published this week in online arts and culture mag The Pantograph Punch. It’s a treat to have such attention and consideration focussed on the novel. … a large part of what makes her work so compelling … [is] the graft of a story well told. Farr uses space, time and … Read more…
David Herkt reviews The Hope Fault for Fairfax NZ
David Herkt’s lovely review of The Hope Fault for Fairfax was published in their regional papers around New Zealand this weekend. It is a novel [that] has a gravity and a weight. It is dense with sensation and thought. The small moments of existence are turned to catching the light. Farr is a master of describing a situation and teasing out its … Read more…
‘Backwards story gives novel a backbone’ interview in Post
On the last day of my recent trip to Perth, I met Sarah McNeill at a Shenton Park cafe for coffee and a chat about The Hope Fault. Sarah’s story was published in Perth’s Post newspaper. The Hope Fault is a uniquely crafted novel that interweaves the intimate and the remote, and beautifully captures the shifts, faults and … Read more…
The Hope Fault — publication day
Today is, officially, publication day for my second novel, The Hope Fault. Fremantle Press have produced a beautiful looking book, and it was a particular delight to work once again with publisher Georgia Richter on this novel. It’s such a thrill to be with Fremantle Press — Georgia and Jane Fraser and Claire Miller and … Read more…
Writing workshop at KSP in Perth
I’m visiting Perth for 6 weeks, ahead of the publication (1 March) of my new novel The Hope Fault, and while I’m here I’m teaching a writing workshop at Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers’ Centre (KSP) in Greenmount. It’s an updated version of a workshop I taught last year at Perth Writers Festival and at WORD … Read more…
‘Family fault lines explored’ interview, The West Australian
My first interview for The Hope Fault was with writer and reviewer Maureen Eppen – a marathon (and hugely enjoyable) two-hour chat about the book. Result: this article in Perth newspaper The West Australian. The Hope Fault is a deceptively subtle depiction of family life … so much simmers beneath the surface … Click on the images below left to … Read more…