Author(s): Craig Sherbourne

Fiction

Muck is about what happens when things go wrong, hilariously, tragically, on the path to adulthood. Set in Sydney and New Zealand, it features a cow called Miss Beautiful, an encounter with the Prime Minister and a church-going atheist who sings like Dean Martin. It is about overbearing parents, farm life, mental illness and the extremes of human vanity. Most of all it is about a young man and the world he constructs in order to survive his family anda"somehowa"discover a self of his own.