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- Winner, Miles Franklin Literary Award, 2022
- Shortlisted, Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2022
- Shortlisted, Stella Prize, 2022
- Shortlisted, Fiction, The Age Book of the Year Award, 2022
- Shortlisted, Adult crime novels, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, 2022
So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found Maggie.
I had no way of knowing whether he was nuts or not; whether he might go to the cops. Maybe that sounds paranoid, but I don’t think it’s so ridiculous. People have gone to prison for much lesser things than accusations of child-killing.
A quiet, small-town existence. An unexpected Facebook message, jolting her back to the past. A history she’s reluctant to revisit: dark memories and unspoken trauma, warning knocks on bedroom walls, unfathomable loss.
She became a new person a long time ago. What happens when buried stories are dragged into the light?
This epic novel from the two-time Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year is a masterwork of tragedy and heartbreak—the story of a life in full. Sublimely wrought in devastating detail, Bodies of Light confirms Jennifer Down as one of the writers defining her generation.
Author: Jennifer Down
Paperback Published 31 October 2023 448 pages
Originally published 28 September 2021
’Brutal and beautiful—I couldn’t stop reading it. Jennifer Down is a brilliant writer.’ -Victoria Hannan
‘Mesmerising, uncompromising and extraordinary. A whole life is in these pages.’-Robbie Arnott