The Healing Party by Micheline Lee lived-experience all underpinned with a Wordsworthian

all underpinned with a Wordsworthian sense of wonder at having experienced tumultuous times and walked with giants

acclaimed journalist Paddy Manning asks: can the dutiful son hang onto the empire

the Western Pacific

there were added complexities

Matthew Richardson

The Healing Party by Micheline Lee lived-experience all underpinned with a WordsworthianEvocative, taut and wryly funny, this stunning novel is about faith and lies, the spirit and the flesh Estranged from her family, Natasha is making a life for herself in Darwin when her sister calls with bad news. Their mother is ill, and has only a few months to live. Confused and conflicted, Natasha returns to the home she fled many years before. But her father, an evangelical Christian, has not changed he is still the domineering yet magnetic man