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'Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences.
'The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home.
'Kieran's parents are struggling in a community which is bound, for better or worse, to the sea, that is both a lifeline and a threat. Between them all is his absent brother, Finn.
'When a body is discovered on the beach, long-held secrets threaten to emerge. A sunken wreck, a missing girl, and questions that have never washed away...'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
Adaptations
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The Survivors ( dir. Cherie Nowlan et. al. )agent Australia : Tony Ayres Productions , 2024 27304001 2024 series - publisher film/TV
Notes
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Civica Libraries most borrowed book, 2020
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A brief review of this work appeared in The New York Times January 17 2021.
Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of
Other Formats
- Dyslexic edition.
- Large print.
Works about this Work
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At Home with Jane Harper Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2020 23453993 2020 single work podcast interview
'Jane Harper's debut novel, The Dry, received too many awards to list here and has now been turned into a feature film (to be released in 2021). Her subsequent novels, Force Of Nature and The Lost Man, received similar praise, and there is little doubt her most recent work, The Survivors, will as well.
'Jane's books are published in forty territories worldwide. She worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the United Kingdom before beginning to write full time.' (Production introduction)
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Mystery Lurks below Surface
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 September 2020; (p. 14)
— Review of The Survivors 2020 single work novel 'Jane Harper’s capacity for evoking natural environments and creating characters and storylines credibly informed by these locations is on display as strongly as ever in her new novel, The Survivors.' (Introduction)
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Mystery Lurks below Surface
2020
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 26 September 2020; (p. 14)
— Review of The Survivors 2020 single work novel 'Jane Harper’s capacity for evoking natural environments and creating characters and storylines credibly informed by these locations is on display as strongly as ever in her new novel, The Survivors.' (Introduction) -
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At Home with Jane Harper Astrid Edwards (interviewer), 2020 23453993 2020 single work podcast interview
'Jane Harper's debut novel, The Dry, received too many awards to list here and has now been turned into a feature film (to be released in 2021). Her subsequent novels, Force Of Nature and The Lost Man, received similar praise, and there is little doubt her most recent work, The Survivors, will as well.
'Jane's books are published in forty territories worldwide. She worked as a print journalist for thirteen years both in Australia and the United Kingdom before beginning to write full time.' (Production introduction)
Awards
- 2022 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
- 2021 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best Novel
- 2021 shortlisted Colin Roderick Award
- 2021 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2021 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year — Adult Fiction Book of the Year