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 its 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 fathers 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 cant 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 brothers love are not enough.