Charlotte Wood
Author of Animal People, editor of the anthology Brothers & Sisters, and author of novels
The Children, The Submerged Cathedral and Pieces of a Girl. A book of personal essays about cooking, Love & Hunger, will be published in May 2012.
Praise for ANIMAL PEOPLE:
"Charlotte Wood is one of our finest and most chameleonic writers ... This is a beautiful, resounding tale of an ordinary man flailing. It's superb storytelling."
- The Australian
"A compelling and ultimately moving novel that cements Wood's place as one of the most intelligent and compassionate novelists in Australia."
- The Age
"Arch, poignant and funny ... consistently inventive and tightly crafted ... A few pages out from the end, I groaned. No, it can't be over yet. When I finished, I wanted to start it all over again."
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The Sydney Morning Herald
"An author at the top of her game ... Wood is a consummate observer of the human condition"
- Australian Book Review
"The best of literature does more than entertain, it reveals something to us about ourselves,
and this certainly happened for me in reading this book ... Do your higher self a favour and
read this book."
- The Book Nerd Club
"I felt I had been dismantled, cleaned and reassembled by the novel. The novel did not change me. It reintroduced me to the important parts that make up who I am ... Wood is writing literature of the kind which hopes to hit upon universal truths using only the simplest and most delicate tools... [she] stalks the greatest of subjects, the human condition. How we live, how we love and how we communicate. And she does so with prose that is spare, considered, beautiful and graceful."
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John Purcell, Booktopia
NEW:
Conversations: Charlotte talks with Richard Fidler on his popular ABC radio program.
The Sitting Act: On the bond between portrait painter & subject, The Monthly Dec 2011-Jan 2012
The likeability problem: Extended version of The Hoopla post, Newswrite Magazine Dec 2011
Writers' Rooms: Visit Charlotte's writing room with The Book Show, ABC Radio National
The Write Tools #32: On the usefulness of close observation
The Book Show's Dominic Knight interviews Charlotte about Animal People
Hate the character, love the book? Charlotte on the problem of likeable characters
VIDEO - a new page of video footage, interviews and more - click here
Good Weekend magazine features an essay by Charlotte about animals and anthropormorphism
Booktopia's 10 Terrifying Questions: Charlotte on Animal People and other matters ...
Check the events page for details of where Charlotte will be talking about Animal People.
Animal People launch by Malcolm Knox, Better Read Than Dead, October 2011
