Jennifer Down’s 2022 Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning novel Bodies of Light is brutally precise in its portrayal of the enduring consequences of a traumatic childhood.
The winner of the 2020 Miles Franklin award is a powerful and deeply moving book, unstinting in its depiction of socio-political disasters, writes Jen Webb.
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Ahead of the announcement this week of the 2020 Miles Franklin Literary Award winner, cultural theorist Jenn Webb offers a guide to the six shortlisted novels – all of which tackle topics that ‘shimmer with relevance’.