‘I would defy anyone to read this story and remain unmoved. The Restorer is an incredibly powerful novel and, I believe, an important one.’—Hannah Kent, author of Burial Rites and The Good People

‘A beautifully written novel about growing up, starting again—and how the riptide of personal history can pull us further and further from safety, no matter how hard we fight.’—Charlotte Wood, author of The Natural Way of Things

‘A wise and timely novel that builds and breaks like a summer storm – just as beautiful, just as brutal.’—Fiona McFarlane, author of The High Places

‘Entrancing and heartbreakingly sad.’—Who Weekly 

‘Powerful, poetic, extraordinary fiction; the family unit and the city crumbles around his characters, but Sala never falters.’—The Australian

‘Sala taps into the tension and fear of the times to help build the mood…The cracks are widening long before the earth moves in this novel of a family locked into patterns of violence.’—Australian Women’s Weekly

'A sensitively rendered novel with a fine eye for emotional and physical detail. The questions it raises are as disturbing as they are compelling.’ —Sydney Morning Herald