Full name: Past the Shallows: A Novel

Author: Favel Parrett Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Young adult, Fiction, Contemporary Culture: Australia Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781476754871 147675487X

Brothers Joe, Harry and Miles live with their father, an abalone fisherman, on the south-east coast of Tasmania. Everyday their dad battles the unpredictable ocean to make a living. He is a hard man, a bitter drinker who harbours a devastating secret that is destroying him. Unlike Joe, Harry and Miles are too young to leave home and so are forced to live under the dark cloud of their father's mood, trying to stay as invisible as possible whenever he is home. Harry, the youngest, is the most vulnerable and it seems he bears the brunt of his father's anger... Similar books: The World Beneath by Cate Kennedy The Children by Charlotte Wood The Orchard Thieves by Elizabeth Jolley Journey to the Stone Country by Alex Miller The Merry-go-round in the Sea by Randolph Stow Tirra Lirra by the River by Jessica Anderson To the Islands by Randolph Stow The Harp In The South by Ruth Park Missus by Ruth Park Cloudstreet by Tim Winton The Shiralee by D'Arcy Niland Wanting by Richard Flanagan The Submerged Cathedral by Charlotte Wood The White Earth by Andrew McGahan Animal people by Charlotte Wood Turtles All the Way Down by John Green They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Hate List by Jennifer Brown