Debbie Lim Reviews Feather Man by Rhyll McMaster

by Rhyll McMaster

Brandl & Schlesinger, 2007

ISBN: 9781876040833

Reviewed by DEBBIE LIM

What repels can often also compel. In Feather Man, author Rhyll McMaster seems to know this as she draws us into the life of Sooky – a girl who is sexually abused by her neighbour in 1950s suburban Brisbane. The story opens with Sooky helping her perpetrator, Lionel, in his chook yard. By the third page, we cannot help but read in growing horror as Lionel commits the violation that will set up the damaging patterns that define Sooky’s relationships in adulthood.

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