Victoria Lothian has written a beautiful, considered review of The Hope Fault for Dundee University Review of the Arts (DURA). Farr’s elegant and descriptive language captures the ordinary and intricate moments of daily family communications […] The Hope Fault leaves us with a quiet sense of hope that not every fault line will cause tremors … Read more…
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Roundup of Italian media, Dopo la pioggia
The Hope Fault was published in Italy in late 2018 by Unorosso, an imprint of Parallelo45 Edizioni. The Italian translation, by Daniela Di Falco, takes the title Dopo la pioggia – ‘after the rain’. The novel had its first public airing when the Parallelo45 Edizioni team took Dopo la pioggia to Bookcity Milano in 2018, and … Read more…
World Literature Today reviews The Hope Fault
World Literature Today magazine included a mini-review of The Hope Fault in Nota Benes, Spring 2019 (April 2019), digest discussions of more than 30 new releases from around the world. Farr’s examination of amplectant bonds as equally capable of holding families together as they are of tearing them apart feels as real as fiction gets. —World … Read more…
New York Times reviews The Hope Fault
On its US release, Abigail Meisel reviewed The Hope Fault for the New York Times Book Review, 4 November 2018 (in print 4 November, online 2 November). … fault lines, including the Hope Fault, [are] a handy metaphor for the ever-shifting and sometimes dangerous terrain of family life. —New York Times Book Review The Hope Fault is one … Read more…
Foreword Reviews starred review of The Hope Fault
Ahead of the US release of The Hope Fault in October, Foreword Reviews magazine has given it a starred review in their September/October 2018 issue. Tracy Farr’s carefully crafted literary novel The Hope Fault explores what family means when it’s placed beside the weight of history. […] The Hope Fault is a riveting novel that elegantly … Read more…
The Hope Fault one of NZ Listener’s 100 Best Books of 2017
The Hope Fault has been listed as one of the 100 Best Books of 2017 by New Zealand Listener magazine (25 November 2017 issue). The list, compiled by Listener books editor Russell Baillie and the Listener team, covers fiction and non-fiction, New Zealand and international, and I am thrilled to see my book in such good company. Quietly brilliant second … Read more…
Sonia Nair reviews The Hope Fault for ABR
Sonia Nair reviewed The Hope Fault for the Australian Book Review (September 2017, no. 394). The minutiae and messiness of family life as it comes together and unravels time and time again are delicately rendered in Tracy Farr’s second novel, The Hope Fault. The unrelenting rain that forms the lugubrious backdrop for much of the novel conjures up the same … Read more…
Round-up of reviews of The Hope Fault
There have been a few recent reviews of The Hope Fault from Australian writers and bookbloggers that I wanted to note and link to. I’m really grateful for the time and effort and care that each of these reviews represents – in reading the book in the first place, and then to care enough about my book to … Read more…
ODT reviews The Hope Fault
Jessie Neilson reviewed The Hope Fault for the Otago Daily Times (published online 15 May). The language is poetic but also sparse, and much is told in the gaps between. … a quiet and thoughtful work … — Jessie Neilson, ODT Read the review online: ‘Quiet thoughtful work draws readers in’.
Lucy Walding reviews The Hope Fault for Westerly
Lucy Walding reviewed The Hope Fault for Westerly (online). You can read the full review online at Westerly>From the Editor’s Desk. Westerly is the literary magazine published at the Westerly Centre (formerly the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature) at my alma mater (do Australians have an alma mater?), University of Western Australia, so I’m particularly thrilled that they’ve reviewed my novel. … Read more…