Eyrie by Tim Winton

I am just getting the hang of this so bear with me.  My first post will be about Tim Winton's newest novel Eyrie.  With humour and staggering dialogue, Eyrie is about disgraced environmentalist Tom Keely.  As a result of his high ethical standards he has lost his job, home and his wife and is living in a colourless concrete building in Fremantle, Australia, where he has succumbed to addiction and loneliness.  This solitary man starts to connect with a desperate woman and her young grandson who live on the same floor.  Sounds grim but Winton is wickedly funny writer and Keely's struggle for redemption is rife with humour.  Read this book for the dialogue alone if for nothing else.