The Riders - Tim Winton

My goodness, what a long-winded telling of a simple tale. The first 100 pages involve a main decorating a house in Ireland while waiting for his wife and daughter to arrive from Australia. When only the daughter shows up, the father and child start a rambling tour of Europe in search of the mother. The central characters are strongly realised but minor characters flit by inconsequentially and the plot really doesn't justify the 400 page length.