Nine Hours North

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“…fluid and perceptive free verse with a wry edge and a wonderful sense of atmosphere…”

The Advertiser

“a brilliantly told story of emotional self-discovery, internal conflict and corrupted symbiosis…”

Seed Magazine

“…a story pared back to its lovely bones.”

The Sunday Telegraph

“…a tender and unsettling experience.”

Sydney Morning Herald

"...a terrific book... It’s so well written that you get the overview and the detail and the nuance of this in just a few short pages... very, very well written..."

ABC Radio

"...very cinematic in style, with a poet’s metaphoric and playful use of language and a verse novelist’s capacity for witty vernacular."

Australian Book Review

“I found your book very interesting and discovered a lot of things about life in Japan. The only thing I disapproved of was the sprinkling of swear words here & there – quite irrelevantly in some cases.”

Sheila McCulloch (Tim's Granny)

About Nine Hours North

Nine Hours North began to be begot way back in the 20th Century, and has been mutating slowly ever since. The final mutation arrived in February 2006, when Penguin Australia released it on the world.

Blurbish

If someone were to write a blurb, it might go a little something like this:

Things stopped making sense from the moment Adam arrived in Japan - the conservative job, the shoebox apartment and the growing weight of his relationship with Sarah.

By the time Marianne arrives, he's been battery-caged for so long it all seems normal - but then she changes everything...