num_pages: 272
description: Brothers Joe Harry and Miles live with their father an abalone fisherman on the south-east coast of Tasmania. Everyday their dad battles the unpredictable ocean to make a living. He is a hard man a bitter drinker who harbours a devastating secret that is destroying him. Unlike Joe Harry and Miles are too young to leave home and so are forced to live under the dark cloud of their father's mood trying to stay as invisible as possible whenever he is home. Harry the youngest is the most vulnerable and it seems he bears the brunt of his father's anger...
language: English
title: Past the Shallows
publisher: Hachette Australia