Have This Heart

From acclaimed author Lawrence Patchett, Have This Heart is a compulsively readable story collection about men who are trying to do better. Whether training a rescue dog, starting a bucket chain to put out a raging fire, raising a marquee beside a line of Ferraris, or reporting on a sensitive workplace accident, the men in Have This Heart are striving for more. For connection, for humour, for a way back into the world. Lawrence Patchett's stories are about men at work and what happens when your life doesn't let you hide. These are tightly coiled stories, rich with rough talk and fear-sweat and tenderness. Praise for Lawrence Patchett 'Patchett lopes easily between reverence and parlour comedy and bushman's nous. . . The pace is tempered by the forever grind of staying alive.' -Catherine Woulfe, The Spinoff 'On the surface, Lawrence's writing has a rugged, frontier, quality, but underneath, holding it all together, is a delicate web, almost fragile in its nature. There is a rawness on the page that is underscored by a rich emotional intelligence that enables him to capture love and loss.' -Laurence Fearnley