I begin to record the history of it all, because if I dont I will explode, leaving nothing to tell of me but a pile of ash. In this history I will try to leave nothing out, but I will also be careful not to incorporate any extraneous unnecessary shit. Like objectivity. Objectivity is for those who dont have a point to make, or a side to take. There is only one side to this story and thats mine.
1975, Western Sydney.
A street where neighbours keep an eye on everyone elses business.
A boy and his mumand a family secret, barely hidden.
Devon Destri flies under the radar. He doesnt talkcalls himself hard of speakingand does nothing to correct any assumptions of his low intelligence. If no one knows otherwise, no one will expect anything of him, and maybe he wont need to expect anything of himself. Only his fiercely loyal friend, Big Tammy, and his neighbour, Krenek, know that Great Expectations is his favourite book, or that he can read at all.
But when the chilling revelation of his mothers past unexpectedly blows open his view of himself, and of her, Devon realises he can have great expectations after all.
First, though, he has a score to settle.
Stuart Everly-Wilson lives in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales with his partner and their dog, Aspro. Low Expectations is his first novel.
Wild and uninhibited with an unforgettable cast of characters whom I Immediately started to miss when I closed the book. There's no shortage of brutalitythis is, after all, a story about grudges, long memories and revengebut there's deep love and empathy among this strange cast of suburban exiles. Jock Serong
Genre: General Fiction
1975, Western Sydney.
A street where neighbours keep an eye on everyone elses business.
A boy and his mumand a family secret, barely hidden.
Devon Destri flies under the radar. He doesnt talkcalls himself hard of speakingand does nothing to correct any assumptions of his low intelligence. If no one knows otherwise, no one will expect anything of him, and maybe he wont need to expect anything of himself. Only his fiercely loyal friend, Big Tammy, and his neighbour, Krenek, know that Great Expectations is his favourite book, or that he can read at all.
But when the chilling revelation of his mothers past unexpectedly blows open his view of himself, and of her, Devon realises he can have great expectations after all.
First, though, he has a score to settle.
Stuart Everly-Wilson lives in the Northern Rivers region of New South Wales with his partner and their dog, Aspro. Low Expectations is his first novel.
Wild and uninhibited with an unforgettable cast of characters whom I Immediately started to miss when I closed the book. There's no shortage of brutalitythis is, after all, a story about grudges, long memories and revengebut there's deep love and empathy among this strange cast of suburban exiles. Jock Serong
Genre: General Fiction
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