Jacqueline Kent

He died in 1987.

But I've been trying all this time to get him down, as it were.

And I tried to put him into fiction and it didn't work because he kept escaping.

And so I thought, right, well, let's just do it.

So it took a while.

It really did take a while.

Because, you know, when you're part of the story yourself, it's really hard to know how to handle

Your own feelings and your own thoughts.

It's not a sad story.

I keep telling people.

It's basically short.

It's got jokes in it, lots of jokes, and it's not inspirational.

Well, tick, tick, tick.

It absolutely is.

It's also, I was just saying to Robert before we came on air, that I'm a huge fan of popular writers being given their due.

And that certainly applies to Ken because he's known for Wake and Fright.

He wrote about, you never knew how many other novels he read, but he wrote a lot of other novels, maybe 10 or 15, which were basically a lot of them potboilers.

But there's craft.

There's real craft in all of them.

And I think with Wake and Fright, which was his first, he wasn't the first person to say that the Australian bush is a deeply terrible place.