How unfair that someone who can illustrate picture books so full of mystery and expectation also has the talent to write in the same luminous way. I was fascinated and discomfitted by this book about Tom at art school, and the life through which he drifts, sometimes interacting with friends and family. Nothing quite makes sense to him, but he stays open to possibility, open to anything the Sydney landscape with its great arching bridge brings. And that’s what counts. A mysterious sort of book, very readable and oddly perplexing.