Dutton novel "funny, fluid, spiritual"

Several Women Dancing review

What’s beneath the narrative... what drives and determines it, is a marvellous language, at once subtle, obvious, flowing, engaging and delightful. To fall into the exceptional music, line by line, and now and then step back and look at the architecture (or landscape, better), is to be well rewarded. Here, without simile or metaphor... is a musical ride, conventional yet unconventionally sung, a stab at a novel... This, [Dutton’s] first extended fiction, is a funny, fluid, spiritual novel. A beautiful shot in the dark.