Scott Pearce is a writer and teacher, who lives in Mooroolbark, Victoria with his wife Jessica and their four children. Scott received his PhD from Deakin University in 2016. His dissertation examined the changing perceptions and reframing of masculine performance in post-World War II Westerns. He is fan of the Western film genre, William Faulkner and Charles Bukowski; he also has detailed plans of how to survive a zombie apocalypse. He writes about the link between place and identity and the entanglements of the past - real and imagined.
A social realist novel about one of our most biting realities - the withering of rural Australia; its farmlands, its towns and its footy clubs. Martin Flanagan This is a story of football heroes and dying women. It is also a ghost story, in which the traditions of patriarchy haunt a family and a country town. Writing prose rich with the poetic and the Australian vernacular, Scott Pearce is an exciting new voice in Australian literature. He has written a novel that is uniquely ours and uniquely for our times. Maria Takolander