Reviewed: The Bearcat, Georgia Rose Phillips, Picador Jesus is back and he’s a white woman in Mount Dandenong—at least, this was the self-proclamation made by real-life cult leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne at the centre of Georgia Rose Phillips’ debut novel The Bearcat. Amid societal obsession with true crime, the source material promises a gripping read: illegally adopted children, LSD microdosing, an impending apocalypse and the rise of a blonde ‘master race’—this was the mission ...
