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Book SynopsisIn the spring of 1885, seventeen-year-old Jessilyn Harney finds herself orphaned and alone on her family's homestead. Desperate to fend off starvation and predatory neighbours, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, saddles her beloved mare, and sets off across the mountains. Her goal? To find her gun-slinging fugitive brother Noah and...
Trade ReviewA powerful, impressive novel with a visceral sense of time and place -- Antonia Senior * The Times *
Larison uses the traditional Western form to explore very contemporary ideas about gender and identity -- Nick Rennison * BBC History Magazine *
Larison imbues the romance and wide-open spaces of the classic western with modern gender and racial awareness, giving space to those left out of the classic Old West mythos, but the main draw is Jesse's narrative voice, all folksy eloquence peppered with grit and determination -- Alistair Mabbott * Herald Scotland *
The punch and intensity of the writing and the voice of Jess are rather remarkable... So, too, is the depiction of her inner life, which lifts the novel high above the run of the mill -- Elizabeth Buchan * Daily Mail *
If you're a fan of Patrick DeWitt's
The Sisters Brothers or Cormac McCarthy's
Blood Meridian, there's plenty in
Whiskey When We're Dry for you to indulge in and there's no doubt that this novel will be talked about in the same breath as these greats in years to come -- Colin James * Storgy Magazine *
