![]() Wigg, is similarly preoccupied with the natural world. Her previous, much praised debut novel, Mr. Her 2012 Eric Rolls Nature Writing Prize is consistent with her ability to blend observation with a gentle philosophical underpinning. ![]() That Inga Simpson can sustain the reader with pages of observations of birdlife is a testament to her talent as a nature writer. ![]() "She had been feeling little low, and along comes a robin, irresistible in his grey and yellow suit, to remind her of all there was to live for." Her one solace is depicting her birds and their nests. Jen sees herself as a "husk" of a woman, orphaned and childless. While Jen is not drawing and painting her environment, she is rescuing the house from it. The house she has bought is under constant siege from the forest, including the birds and other creatures who find it hard to distinguish her home from their own natural habitat. ![]() She was a teacher who practised as an artist in her spare time now she has become an artist who teaches in her spare time. "Life's pace has slowed, living among trees again, and she has been happy to let it."Īfter retreating from a failed marriage, Jen has returned to her hometown, a small coastal village on the Queensland coast. We wait patiently as she pours water on tea leaves and walks out to her porch. This is a book that calls for the reader to slow down as we follow the minutia of the daily habits of its protagonist, Jen. ![]()
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