One Hell of a good yarn.' Sunday Herald Sun. 'A. distinctly Australian voice. 'Canberra Times. What Next You Bastard may well prove to have rqore layers ~ of appeal than a mille feuille ....a narrative packed with incident, villains and comedy. There s nothing of the victim in Hall. His mother was feisty and so is her son. A keen appreciation of the comic, everywhere evident in the story, with a capacity for lateral thinking that enabled him not only to hide his disability but to wreak a poetic revenge on some of his persecutors, keeps him dancing through the narrative. His is certainly a story that needed to be told... His collaborator McFerran has demonstrated just the right kind of literacy to tell the tale.' Mary Rose Liverani, The Australian.