The Australian[2] said the novel "asks us if it is possible to escape the subjectivity of our pasts, or do the male voices in our heads sentence us to a lifetime of judgment by their standards?
might be read as a tale of redemption and hope.” and The Age[3] said "Mitchell is a terse and observant writer, as alive to the particulars of Aussie idiom and experience as Tim Winton, but less showy .
[5][failed verification] His poetry, essays and stories have been published in newspapers, magazines and journals including The Age, The Sunday Age, Best Australian Stories and Poems, Meanjin, Griffith Review, Overland, ABC Religion and Ethics and The Big Issue.
Mitchell's 2015 play Ragdoll was a work of fiction that drew upon two Australian cases of patricide: Arthur Freeman throwing his child Darcy from Melbourne's Westgate Bridge,[6] and Robert Farquharson driving his three children into a dam near Winchelsea.
a contribution to a desperately needed national conversation [that] will deepen and enrich it in very significant ways.”