'Suzie Miller is a multi-award-winning playwright, whose one-woman play Prima Facie – after earning plaudits for Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company – was staged in the West End, starring Jodie Comer, and won a Best New Play Olivier Award. Prima Facie ran on Broadway this year and Miller is adapting it into a film, but it has also found its way into the form of this novel.' (Introduction)
'Outback noir is a star of Australian literature. New novels from Jane Harper and Chris Hammer – to name just two – are seen as publishing events. Harper’s 2016 debut, The Dry, and its 2017 sequel, Force of Nature, have been made into films. Hammer’s 2018 debut, Scrublands, is in production as a television series.' (Introduction)
