Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2018 This Water is the last work of fiction by Beverley Farmer, one of Australia's great prose stylists, and a pioneer of women's writing in this country. It is a collection of five interwoven tales, each has a woman at its centre: in each the women speak, act, think for themselves, in opposing or escaping from an oppressive authority. Praise for This Water: Five Tales: 'Farmer's prose is virtuosic, she is a stylist unlike any other living Australian writer.' - Australian Book Review 'Like the incoming tide, she probes everywhere, and her writing, like that of Gerard Manley Hopkins, revels in the peaks and troughs of the English language.' - Inside Story 'Splendid...lightly touched by the world of myths and legends...illuminated by Farmer's masterly control of structure, tone and imagery.' - Sydney Morning Herald