Tim Winton: The Turning

April, 2015

A collection of short stories with recurring characters and scenes based around the fictional towns of Angelus and White Point in Western Australia.

After reading The Lemon Table, The Turning, to me, feels much more vital, in the sense that its characters are instilled with more life. More vital also in the sense that the stories have a greater insistence that they be told, as if in the telling they become the means of catharsis not only for the reader but their characters also.

Usually short stories leave me a bit dissatisfied, feeling a bit wanting, just because I want to know more about the characters (at least for the better stories). In this sense, The Turning feels more like a novel, as recurring characters and events allows the reader piece together a powerful narrative.