Rose Boys

'Rose Boys is the wrenching, stunning account of a family living for about a quarter of a century in the sometimes tightening, sometimes loosening, but never absent, grip of a catastrophe.' -- Brian Matthews 'A book of immense emotional force that is a eulogy to his brother, a tribute to his parents and a powerful demonstration of the redemptive quality of suffering.' * Meanjin * ' A deeply felt, passionately uplifting story.' * Weekend Australian * ' A deep family story of suffering, love and passionate devotion, richly and freshly told.' -- Helen Garner 'Rose Boys is an intimate and moving—though never maudlin—story of familial love...often simple, sometimes rich and lyrical, and always cliché free.' * Time * 'A moving story expertly told.' -- Andrew Riemer * Sydney Morning Herald * 'I'm not sure when I last came across someone who has written so powerfully about death.' -- Martin Flanagan * Age * 'Rose's powerful book is about finding words to describe those events that leave us in silence.' -- David McCooey * HEAT * 'Rose Boys is a wonderful story about a relationship between men. It touches core issues of identity and loss but does so in a quietly undemonstrative manner.' -- Michael McGirr * Eureka Street * 'Eloquent, profoundly moving, deep-seeing into the mysteries of human suffering...a special book about a special man and the diminished life he managed so richly to share with others.' * Australian Review of Books * 'Far removed from conventional sports writing, this is a sad and beautiful essay on suffering, fortitude, heroism and love...[it] reads like a fine and sensitive novel.' * Tain *