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MURRAY BAIL - The Pages.

Murray Bail is an Australian writer of novels, short stories and non fiction.

He was born in Adelaide, South Australia and has lived most of his life in Australia. He currently lives in Sydney. He is well known for his novel Eucalyptus that won the
Commonwealth Writers' Prize and the Miles Franklin Award in 1999. His other works
include the novels Homesickness, which was a joint winner of The Age Book of the Year in 1980 and Holden’s Performance, which won the Vance Palmer Prize for Fiction.

The Pages is Murray Bail's latest novel.

On a family sheep station in Western New South Wales, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing his philosophy.

Now he has died. Erica, a philosopher, is sent from Sydney to appraise his life's work. Accompanying her is Sophie, who needs distracting from a string of failed relationships. Her field is psychoanalysis. The pages Wesley wrote lie untouched in the shed, just as he left them. What will they reveal? Was he a genius? These turn out to be only a couple of the questions in the air. How will the visit change the lives of Erica and Sophie?

The Pages is a beguiling meditation on friendship and love, on men and women, on landscape and the difficulties of thought itself, by one of Australia's greatest novelists.

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