'The Watch Tower is a revelation. It's searing, not only in its depiction of a Sydney summer but of the fate of women, trapped in the domestic sphere. It's a stop-your-heart kind of book.' -- The Guardian 'Elizabeth Harrower's tale of a cruel and oppressive marriage is a forgotten gem of Australian literature ... Harrower captures brilliantly the struggle to retain a self amid both domestic and global conflict.' -- The Observer `To create a monster as continually credible, comic and nauseating as Felix is a feat of a very high order ... a dense, profoundly moral novel of our time.' -- The Sydney Morning Herald