![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “I wrote the book the same way I write all the books: just for play, to find out, to make a story and as an excuse to write about landscapes that I love and the people who come out of those landscapes.” ![]() “I didn’t write the book as a vehicle to talk about it,” he says. Winton decided to give the tour, called Tender Hearts, Sons of Brutes, because he knew The Shepherd’s Hut was being published in the middle of the #MeToo moment, a cultural upheaval that is throwing up deep questions about gender relations. He’s in company, he says, so he’s wearing shoes.īut he has done something he has never done before and completed a 10-city tour, where people paid up to $50 (£28) to hear him talk about an issue that The Shepherd’s Hut raises, even though Winton loathes worthy-cause writing: the toxicity of patriarchy, not only for women but for men and boys. At 57, he’s recognisably the same Winton, with his straggly surf-bleached hair, his loose jeans and T-shirt. “You’re the only thing that’s standing between me and freedom,” he says with a smile, describing himself as a horse in a paddock waiting to go home: “Any fence I can’t jump I’m just going to run through.”įor the last couple of months, Winton has being venturing out of his domestic bliss and he has caused a fuss. ![]()
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