Louise O’Brien reviews The Hope Fault on RNZ

The Hope Fault (Fremantle Press, 2017)

Louise O’Brien reviewed The Hope Fault on RNZ Nine to Noon (26 April 2017), in the NZ Books review slot. The novel is beautifully restrained … I recommend it highly. It is smart writing, it’s thoughtful and nuanced. It’s respectful of the reader, it lets you fill in the gaps, and it lets you leave gaps unfilled … It feels very much … Read more…

The Hope Fault: interview on RNZ Standing Room Only

The Hope Fault (Fremantle Press, 2017)

I spoke with Lynn Freeman for Standing Room Only, the weekly arts programme on RNZ National, about my new novel, The Hope Fault. Listen to the interview (‘The Hope Fault – new writing’, 16 April 2017) online. Standing Room Only is ‘literally radio with pictures … and arts, theatre, film, comedy, books, dance, entertainment, pop culture, and music – … Read more…

Catherine Robertson reviews The Hope Fault for NZ Listener

The Hope Fault (Fremantle Press, 2017)

Catherine Robertson reviewed The Hope Fault for New Zealand Listener (8 April 2017 edition – dated today, but on newsstands last weekend). … Tracy Farr’s quietly brilliant second novel … is an accomplished, immersive, moving book. Highly recommended.— Catherine Robertson, NZ Listener Click on the image below left to read the full review.

Music to warm a book by

Wallaby at Meow (photo Helen Kettles)

This week we held a bookwarming in Wellington to celebrate the publication earlier in the month of my second novel, The Hope Fault. A bunch of us gathered (like the bunch of people in my book gather) to talk and drink and eat, under the unsettling but appropriate gaze of the wallabies and possums dotted about the … Read more…

Kerryn Goldsworthy reviews The Hope Fault for SMH, The Age

The Hope Fault reviewed Sydney Morning Herald

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

The Hope Fault (map at National Library)

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

The Hope Fault (Fremantle Press, 2017)

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…