A wild girl considers land rights and community in Eva Hornung’s ‘utterly gripping’ new novel
- Written by Shady Cosgrove, Associate Professor, Creative Writing, University of Wollongong
Eva Hornung was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin for her last novel, The Last Garden. The one before that, Dog Boy, won the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Fiction and is now a Text Classic, introduced by Yann Martel.
Her latest centres on The Minstrels: a place that carries significant meaning for the local farming community and...





