Kate Evans
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25,858 appearances
189 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2018
last heard 11 Sep
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Yes.
And it's beautifully done.
beautifully done and your sense of what's real and what's not real, what's monstrous and horrifying or what's beautiful and compelling and attractive shifts as the novel goes on, which is part of like things and bodies are being transformed.
It's also a novel that pulls on all sorts of different literary traditions about...
and demons and monsters and things falling off the edge of the world.
And some of that is done through the journals of KJ, the mysterious woman who has made these effigies and left them all over the island.
So there's a sense that all these different traditions are coming together in this wild place.
And I guess the thing that Chris Neen does as a writer is push those elements in a sort of sexual and erotic way while also writing about nature and landscape so beautifully.
That's Chris Neen's Rite of Spring.
So is it one of your favourites?
It sounds like you really like this one.
I've already had people talking to me about that one.
I've added to my own TBR list.
So what's it about?
And if you forget any of these or you don't have the back of an envelope to scribble the details down on, never fear because we put all of the details in our show notes if you're listening to the podcast version and you can always go online and just find the bookshelf at ABC Radio National.
Michael and Rowena, thank you so much for joining us again.
Thank you for having us.
Great to have you.
This is ABC Radio National's The Bookshelf on air and via podcast.
And now to the latest on the upcoming ABC Radio National's Top 100 Australian Books Countdown, which is being held later this year in October.
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