“As everyone knows, memory is a mystery, both tactile and ineffable. Quentin Sprague’s sustained reflection on his physical, historical, and emotional place in the world begins and ends in finely-drawn locations but spirals out across time, geography, and feeling. Compressed, charged, and elegant, the questions are inexhaustible even as the setting casts its own particular spell.”

—Hugh Raffles, author of The Book of Unconformities: Speculations on Lost Time

“When you are on Country, in this case the Ngario people’s Monaro, the temporal turns into the spatial, history into memory, and time stops. Like a great-grandfather’s pocket watch recovered from a drowned landscape and palm-held once again in a story that is weighted stillness.”

—Stephen Muecke, Emeritus Professor, University of New South Wales