the two disc set includes both bluegrass and classical music. The music is embodied by a quote from the book: "Anything you could play on a verandah. You know, without electricity. Dirt music." Film adaptation A film adaptation, Dirt Music, directed by Gregor Jordan, was released in September 2019. It featured Kelly Macdonald and Garrett Hedlund in the lead roles. A proposed adaptation was in development as early as 2009, with Phillip Noyce as the prospective director. In 2014, Noyce admitted that development had ceased, because "I could never get a script that I thought captured the poetry of the novel... A poetic novel is ... difficult to translate into a movie. It’s a project I’ll come back to I’m sure in the future." References External links Personal Trauma/Historical Trauma in Tim Winton’s Dirt Music | Barbara Arizti - Academia.edu 2001 Australian novels Australian adventure novels Australian novels adapted into films Australian romance novels Australian thriller novels Environmental fiction books Miles Franklin Award-winning works Novels about dysfunctional families Novels by Tim Winton Novels set in Western Australia Picador (imprint) books