Review

Alice Nelson's Faithless unravels an obsessively complex love story

By Ian McFarlane
August 13 2022 - 12:00am
  • Faithless, by Alice Nelson. Vintage Australia. $32.99.
Australian-born Alice Nelson has gathered literary gravitas since her first novel. Picture: Nicole Boenig-McGrade
Australian-born Alice Nelson has gathered literary gravitas since her first novel. Picture: Nicole Boenig-McGrade

Risking extravagance, I'm willing to suggest the intensity of Alice Nelson's third novel, Faithless, captures something of the tragic passion of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.

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