From The Wreck

'It's hard to find the right words to praise this novel. I think we need a whole new critical vocabulary to be invented . . . Jane Rawson's writing is mysterious, chilling and tender. The book is a sort of miracle.' Lian Hearn, author of Across the Nightingale Floor

'What Rawson has ingeniously forged with From the Wreck is something approaching an old-fashioned historical yarn spliced with Cronenbergian body horror . . . genuine tension and sense of dread.' Sydney Morning Herald

'Rawson . . . has the rare talent of stretching our capacity to believe, while at the same time making us feel genuinely for the characters . . . I was reminded of the gentle quality of Steven Spielberg's ET . . . An intriguing tale whose humanity lingers warm long after the reading.' Australian