Review: Outback: Men of Few Words.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 27, 2014
It's set in a time when men didn't speak of their feelings much and 'outback men' were even more internalised. They were tough and took what life threw at them and sometimes it was unbearably harsh as in 'Coal Creek". The set up of the story is quite long and slow even though Miller's detail is incredible and he paints a picture of the land and it's people with the finest brush, hooking the reader into the  small desolate world of Bobby Blue.  His mother told him when he was a young boy " we all hang on the cross, Bobby Blue and don't you forget it". She was so right, upon returning from a long cattle muster Bobby Blue hears the local policeman telling his father of his mother's death a week earlier, alone in their old wooden hut……. and it's then you realise that the life they lived caused deep scars that they hid somewhere inside their hearts and resulted in the incredible series of events that followed. The last half of this book held me totally in the author's powerful writing and I highly recommend it.