Exploded View

'Exploded View...(is) a measured, poetic focus on the small details in nature, roads and relationships.' * Arts Hub *
'Exploded View has all the exhilaration of a revved-up Holden' * Age *
'This tense novel, held tightly with elegant restraint, is hard to read for the best possible reasons. It asks a lot of its reader, but it offers the most satisfying rewards.' * Lifted Brow *
'Superbly controlled, like dark, secret music rising from an abyss.' * Helen Garner *
'This is Tiffany's triumph...her prose has the alert, truncated poetry of a preternatural wise child-lyrical without being florid, clear-sighted by unhappy with that early knowledge...It's title might suggest splintering of focus, but the line drawn in Exploded View is unwavering, tragic, and heads straight down. * Monthly *
'Exploded View is an offbeat coming-of-age story...there is hardly a detail that does not reverberate beyond itself, evoke some deeper implication. * Australian Book Review *
'This is a powerful book and can't be ignored.' * Books + Publishing *
'An adolescent girl's terrifying tale of family life; I have never read a novel like Exploded View.' * Joan London *
'Tiffany pulls off something remarkable here: erecting a narrative structure almost buckling under its own weight, but that ultimately holds up. Challenging and devastating, this is an important read. * Overland *
'This is a very different novel to Tiffany's early books...The language is glitter, angrier and focalised exquisitely through this girl's perspective. * Australian *
'Carrie Tiffany's third novel...As spare as a poem, as potent as a depth charge.' * SA Weekend *
'Both poetic and relentlessly dark in tone...with not a word wasted.' * Saturday Paper *
'If you're a fan of Australian literature, this one is not to be missed.' * AU Review *
'The distinctive qualities that made her two previous novels so successful-an original perspective, odd characters, earthy language-emerge quickly from Exploded View, like wildflowers cracking through bitumen...Tiffany writes this portrait of a girl on the brink of womanhood with great subtlety...[T]here's much to learn from this girl and from the compassion, power and beauty of the author's fine writing.' * Guardian *
'The language shifts and soars...' * Sydney Morning Herald *
'[A] densely interior novel, narrated in vignettes that are rhythmic, often poetic, sparse and compressed...Tiffany's control of [the novel's] voice is masterful. It is thrilling, even exhilarating at times, to read.' -- Fiona Wright * Sydney Review of Books *
'An ending to make your jaw unhinge.' * NZ Listener *