What readers have to say:

The heart, it is said, is a lonely hunter – and Stephanie Dale’s evocative new novel is a meditation on this bittersweet truth. Dale’s Lilia is hungry for love. But ultimately she seeks a more elusive prey: becoming the most magnificent woman she knows how to be.

This is a love story, but more than that it is a novel of ideas, set into a landscape that springs to life under the deft hand of a masterly observer.

You’ll be astonished at the panorama. But in the end, it’s the close-ups of a relationship caught in the crosshairs that makes this work echo like a gunshot in the woods.
Susan Maushart, journalist and author

Hymn for the Wounded Man is a lyrical, honest, fascinating story on so many levels . . . (with) beautiful descriptions of the meditative process of the hunt, the glory of nature, the hunter being connected to everything – and yet he is the wounded man. A fascinating and beautiful book.
Mary-Lou Stephens, ABC Radio presenter

Each brief chapter is so short and delicious, I don’t want to finish having my warm experiences. So I only read one chapter at a time, then close the book with anticipation.
Robert Cope, Melbourne academic