Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Dirt Music by Tim Winton is a novel about the power of love.

Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded with a man she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. She spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka and self-recrimination. Until, early one morning, she sees a shadow drifting up the beach below her house. It is Luther Fox, an outcast, a man on the run from his own past. And now here he is stepping into Georgie's life. He brings hope, maybe even love, but also danger . . .

'Compelling' Independent
'Beautiful' Sunday Telegraph

About the Author
Tim Winton has published over twenty books for adults and children, and his work has been translated into many different languages. Since his first novel, An Open Swimmer, won the Australian/Vogel Award in 1981, he has won the Miles Franklin Award four times (for Shallows, Cloudstreet, Dirt Music and Breath) and twice been shortlisted for the Booker Prize (for The Riders and Dirt Music). Active in the environmental movement, he is the Patron of the Australian Marine Conservation Society. He lives in Western Australia.

Reviews
Generous, earthy and raw . . . Mysteries don't come more heartfelt than this * Independent *
Winton keeps writing fiction that makes the novel feel alive to a continent of possibilities * Evening Standard *
Winton is not a great Australian novelist; he is a great novelist, full stop * The Times *
Written in seemingly effortless prose that never puts a foot wrong * Sunday Times *
A book about the possibility and power of love . . . just pick it up and you'll be transported * Mail on Sunday *
Winton's writing is a heady blend of muscular description, deep sentiment and metaphysics . . . Dirt Music is a beautiful celebration of his country * Sunday Telegraph *
Stunningly written . . . a revelation . . . a magnificent book with themes as enormous as its landscape * Big Issue *


Awards
Short-listed for Man Booker Prize 2002 (UK).



Book Information
ISBN 9781509871131
Author Tim Winton
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 328g
Dimensions(mm) 196mm * 130mm * 29mm