Shortlisted for the 2012 Miles Franklin Award, PAST THE SHALLOWS is a powerful & hauntingly beautiful novel from an extraordinary new Australian writer who is compared with Cormac Mc Carthy & Tim Winton. ` If you read only one book this year, make sure it`s this` Sunday Times `I loved Past the Shallows` Kevin Powers, author of The Yellow Birds Everyone loves Harry. Except his father. Joe, Miles & Harry are growing up on the remote south coast of Tasmania. The brothers` lives are shaped by their father`s moods
- like the ocean he fishes, he is wild & unpredictable. He is a bitter man, with a devastating secret. Miles does his best to watch out for Harry, the youngest, but he can`t be there all the time. Often alone, Harry finds joy in the small treasures he discovers, in shark eggs & cuttlefish bones. In a kelpie pup, a mug of hot chocolate, & a secret friendship with a mysterious neighbour. But sometimes small treasures, or a brother`s love are not enough.