This visionary novel, set in Australia, tells a story through the eyes of twelve-year-old Morton Flack. He watches his family in their isolation and hatred until, one day, an evangelist, Henry Warburton, arrives and, from then on, strange visitors from the Otherworld begin to encroach on their lives. Tim Winton won the 1981 Australian/Vogel Award for his first novel "An Open Swimmer" and the 1985 Miles Franklin Award for his second book "Shallows".
- ISBN10 0340486317
- ISBN13 9780340486313
- Publish Date 1 December 1988 (first published 30 January 1986)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
- Imprint Sceptre
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 288
- Language English