A literary gem. In an era before cars, when graziers offer a bounty for a puma who is killing their sheep, twins Iris and Floyd, down-and-out children of alcoholic ex-convicts, ride their horses into the highlands to collect. The puma, Dusk, has already killed one bounty hunter, and a man from South America, has disappeared. No one quite captures the raw, mesmerising silence of the Tasmanian wilderness, the myths and the solitary individuals who inhabit it, like Arnott, author of The Rain Heron and Limberlost. Traces of Cormac McCarthy.