Pushing BackShortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2022: Christina Stead Prize for Fiction 'The tall trees nearby called them up and red tailed black cockatoos carried messages to them that they told no one else about.' Pushing Back is John Kinsella's most haunting and timely fiction to date. It is populated with eccentric, compelling characters, drifters, unlikely friendships, the silences of dissolving relationships, haunted dwellings and lonely