'Fiona McFarlane is an award-winning Australian writer whose first novel, The Night Guest, was acclaimed for its re-creation of the onset and development of dementia in the 75-year-old protagonist. It won the Voss Literary prize in 2014 and was shortlisted for others. While not every writer can produce short stories as well as longer work, McFarlane excels at both, with short stories appearing in prestigious journals such as The New Yorker. Her debut collection The High Places was lavishly praised, winning the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2017.' (Introduction)