Series ✦ Penny’s Take
Shooting the Fox
Marion Halligan · 2011
70/100
👍 Worth It
Marion Halligan's nineteen stories are unified by an Eden motif that gives the collection more coherence than most short fiction anthologies, and the Australian Book Review's praise for its intimacy and imaginative range is backed up by the evidence in the dossier. Adult literary fiction readers who appreciate quiet character studies over plot-driven narratives will find real pleasure here — but the adult themes make this one firmly for grown-up shelves.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: adult sexual themes (adulterer, pornographer as characters). We still scored it 70; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety60
substance72
craft78
originality74
accuracy75
hype68
age-fit65
human-eye72
Penny’s verdict70
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