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Homesickness

Sep 16, 2025 2:04 AM

Author:Murray Bail

Homesickness

Thirteen Australian package tourists set off around the world on the holiday of a lifetime. But as they trawl from country to country, through cities and round ever more obscure museums they find nothing as they expect it, least of all themselves. Homesickness is an enchanting novel: a wry, witty look at the ways people interact, a catalogue of comic digressions and tantalising information in which the world becomes a museum with no exhibit more bizarre than human nature itself.

Reviews

Bizarre, playful and hilarious

—— Observer

Murray Bail is the warmest and most quick-witted of storytellers

—— Michael Ondaatje

It's a pleasure simply to be immersed in Bail's caprice-prone mind

—— Michael Upchurch , New York Times

The last great novelist of the 20th century

—— Daily Telegraph

A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now

—— Spectator

A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever

—— The Times

She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction

—— Literary Review

A classic . . . a book which will be read with pleasure a hundred years from now

—— Spectator

A smashing love story. It is very romantic. It is also humorous, witty, touching and formidably clever

—— The Times

Hotel du Lac is written with a beautiful grave formality, and it catches at the heart

—— Observer

She is one of the great writers of contemporary fiction

—— Literary Review

‘[Toni Morrison’s] irreverence was godly’

—— Guardian

A beautiful book and it's beautifully written

—— Kit de Waal , Good Housekeeping UK

My favourite book of all time

—— Sareeta Domingo , Good Housekeeping

Morrison's stunning trilogy is an evocation of black life over the past four centuries. It defies summary. Completed almost 25 years ago, these novels top anything produced by any American writer including Hemingway, Updike and DeLillo

—— Trevor Phillips , Sunday Times

[A] beautiful, haunting novel

—— Stig Abell , Sunday Times

More than one of Morrison's books could be classed as masterpieces, but this one is famous for a reason: everyone should read it

—— Bernice McFadden, author of SUGAR , Guardian

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