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…
The Hope Fault
The Hope Fault at WAAPA, 11 to 17 October
My second novel, The Hope Fault, has been adapted for the stage by writer/director Andrew Hale for Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University. It’ll be performed by the entire 18-strong 2nd Year Acting cohort at WAAPA, in a world premiere run from 11 to 17 October 2019. I’ll be in … Read more…
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…
Two years and counting
Two years ago The Hope Fault – my second novel – was published in Australia and New Zealand by Fremantle Press. I want to offer this quiet book a little noise and celebration and pride, to mark its path in the world, and to thank those who’ve helped it on its way. Catherine Robertson gave … Read more…
The Hope Fault at WAAPA for ArtsHub
I talked with Richard Watts recently for a piece he wrote for ArtsHub on Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) at Edith Cowan University. WAAPA’s adaptation of my novel The Hope Fault was featured as one of the highlights of the 2019 performance season, and Richard also talked with writer/director Andrew Hale, who’s adapting the … 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…
The Hope Fault: Q&A for Deborah Kalb
Ahead of the US release of The Hope Fault, writer, editor, book blogger and ex-journalist Deborah Kalb asked if I’d answer some questions about the novel. Deborah asked me about my writing process, long-lost manuscripts, where characters come from, endings, and why my next novel is about triplets! You can read my responses in ‘Q&A with … Read more…
Captain Panic and The Hope Fault: on being anxious in an uncertain landscape
The Belgravia Books / Aardvark Bureau / Gallic Books team asked me to write something for their blog, on anxiety as a preoccupation of my novel The Hope Fault. I wrote about extreme campervanning, family nicknames, and being anxious (and writing) in an uncertain landscape. Like the Worst Campervan in New Zealand, my novel The … Read more…
The Hope Fault makes its way to the stage
A few months ago the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) acquired the stage rights to my novel The Hope Fault from my Australian publisher Fremantle Press (there was a quiet announcement in Books+Publishing’s rights round-up in early July). I’m thrilled that The Hope Fault is being adapted for the stage by writer, director and … Read more…