Prescott’s surreal second novel, set in a slowly collapsing society, is admirably original, but not everyone will enjoy it
After the critical success of his first novel The Town, Shaun Prescott is revisiting some of the same territory in his second. The Town was about an unnamed man “researching the disappearing towns in the central west of New South Wales”, who then witnesses the literal disappearance of an unnamed town as large holes begin to appear in the streets. The metaphorical and allegorical dimensions of this novel were clear from the outset.
But The Town was first published at the end of 2017, when the catastrophic bushfires of 2019-20 had not yet raged, Scott Morrison had only just become prime minister, and the global pandemic was still two years in the future. While Bon and Lesley revisits the geographical and psychological landscapes of The Town, it is set in an unimaginably different Australia.
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