| Feather Man | |
| Author: | Rhyll McMaster |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | Brandl and Schlesinger, Australia |
| Release Date: | 2007 |
| Media Type: | Print Paperback |
| Pages: | 309 |
| Isbn: | 9781876040833 |
Feather Man (2007) is a novel by Australian author Rhyll McMaster. It won the inaugural Barbara Jefferis Award for Best Novel in 2008.
This is a coming-of-age novel that follows the story of Sooky from a Brisbane suburb in the 1950s until her adulthood in London in the 1970s.
Kerryn Goldsworthy in The Australian stated: "This novel is essentially a Bildungsroman, in which a young person grows up and learns about the ways of the world, but here it's enlivened by a genuine mystery, a slender but powerful narrative thread working away deep in the background of the story." She concluded: "Feather Man is not a pleasant or reassuring book, but it's written with great confidence and lyrical intensity, and most Australian readers will recognise in its pages something of their own time and place."[1]