Twitcher

Perhaps the most impressive thing about this book is the way it steadily evokes and elicits strong feeling.Twitcher explores the most specific and private of individual interior states. But the novel is also about society and money: in charting the decline of a family, Saywell explores some of the ways in which the vast divisions between rich and poor are established and maintained. The scene in which the landlord brings a couple and their children to inspect the family's home is quite harrowing, and the delusions behind Kenno's single-minded plan to make money are nothing short of heartbreaking.

Kerryn Goldsworthy, The Sydney Morning Herald

With her second novel, Saywell has written skilfully of the painful attempts to navigate morality, sexuality and family secrets in adolescence. Twitcher is an exploration of the hard knowledge that comes with steps into adulthood, where parents once admired are revealed as fallible and flawed.

Bethanie Blanchard, The Australian

Saywell's portrait of the boy is a delicately nuances, sometimes enigmatic one. This, too, is a hauntingly memorable novel, but the memories are bittersweet and not always comfortable.

Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser

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