Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train travel is severely restricted. There are rumours it is the end of the world.
In the NSW town of Flint, Quinn Walker returns to the home he fled ten years earlier when he was accused of an unspeakable crime. Aware that his father and uncle would surely hang him, Quinn hides in the hills surrounding Flint. There, he meets the orphan Sadie Fox — a mysterious young girl who seems to know more about the crime than she should.
A searing gothic novel of love, longing and justice, Bereft is about the suffering endured by those who go to war and those who are forever left behind.
Chris Womersley
Bereft Unabridged Audio
$39.95 – Compact disc / Bolinda
Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train ... Buy or find out more →
Bereft
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
Shortlisted for the 2011 Miles Franklin Literary Award.
It is 1919. The Great War has ended, but the Spanish flu epidemic is raging across Australia. Schools are closed, state borders are guarded by armed men, and train ... Buy or find out more →
The Low Road
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Scribe Publications
Shortlisted, The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
'Chris Womersley's first novel is so stark and pitiless that it's hard to keep reading. But i... Buy or find out more →
The Low Road
$24.95 – Paperback book / Scribe Publications
New edition.
Shortlisted, The Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards
'Chris Womersley's first novel is so stark and pitiless that it's hard to keep r... Buy or find out more →
