![]() ![]() Something base and elemental and almost primitive, where a bit of stale bread and cheese became a prize worth fighting for … the word she’d been searching for had formed on the tip of her tongue, so real she could almost taste its residue. Alice, writes Harper, “felt the faintest stirrings in the atmosphere. As the fragile trappings of civilisation fall away, and as the women lose their path and run out of food, we learn that Alice has been a whistleblower in a case of corporate crime being investigated by agent Falk. Harper’s story flits between past and present. We know from the start that one of the women, Alice Russell, will not come back. Her second, Force of Nature, takes place deep in the Australian bush, as five women are sent on a corporate bonding retreat, which sees them trekking for days down cold, rainy, remote trails. J ane Harper’s award-winning debut, The Dry, was set during a hideous drought, as federal agent Aaron Falk investigated the death of his childhood best friend in a remote country village. ![]()
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