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“No Country for Girls is a Thelma and Louise-style road trip through outback Australia. It’s about two teen girls, Charlie and Nao, who are thrown together by an unfortunate incident that leaves a man dead on Charlie’s kitchen floor. They go on the run in the dead man’s Holden Rodeo twin cab ute, and discover a bag of stolen gold bars under the passenger seat. I wrote the book as a love letter to Western Australia and road-trip movies. I was a huge Thelma and Louise fan and I was writing it almost exactly 30 years after that film had come out. I couldn’t believe no one had updated it, though once I started I realized it was actually quite hard! You’ve got two characters in a confined space on a road trip. How do you make that into a page-turning novel?” Read more...
