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A Good Read

Jane Harper on her new book Force of Nature

A Good Read

BBC

Arts, Books

4.2848 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Jane Harper discusses her latest book, Force of Nature and Penelope Lively on E Nesbit

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0:40.5

Hello, today how philanthropy through fiction is shaping the world of charity, a lesson from some of the

0:46.9

most notable schoolmasters and mistresses in literature, and Inesbitt's forgotten work, resurrected

0:52.8

by Penelope Lively.

0:54.5

When did two girls of our age have such a chance as we've got?

0:57.8

To have a lark entirely on our own.

1:00.0

No chaperone, no rules, no present income or future prospects, said Lucilla.

1:05.8

More on that later.

1:07.6

But first, one of the new stars of the Australian Outback thriller, one-time journalist

1:12.4

Jane Harper. Her 2015 debut, The Dry, was serialised on Radio 4, was a Sunday Times top

1:19.0

10 bestseller and won the 2017 Indy Book of the Year. Based in the Australian bush, it

1:25.4

introduced us to Sergeant Aaron Fork, a tortured soul grappling with a triple murder, in a town driven crazy by heat and dust during the worst drought in a century.

1:36.4

Harper's follow-up, Force of Nature, returns her protagonist Sergeant Fork to inhospitable terrain, this time the rain-drenched tangled wilderness of the

1:45.8

gear-along range. A group of five women on a corporate retreat return minus one member of their

1:52.2

team and offer a host of contradictory stories about their colleagues' disappearance. Jane Harper

1:58.4

joins me now on the line from Australia. So five women lost in a creepy

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