4th Estate Australian fiction
We see this world through the eyes of Kate, a thirty-something, white, student linguist who has struggled for a sense of her own identity her entire life because of the circumstances and the forceful and beguiling personalities imposed upon her as a young girl. She is an outsider searching for the Aboriginal woman who can reveal to her the oldest song in the world.
Lyrical and brave, The Oldest Song in the World explores universal ideas of home, belonging and family with sensitivity and gentle insight. And it once again demonstrates that Sue Woolfe is one of Australia’s finest living writers.
Below: Sue Woolfe talks about The Oldest Song in the World on YouTube…
And on Radio National here