The Country

The Country     3 The significance of the setting The journey Nao and Charlie make in No Country for Girls spans over 2000 kilometres of mostly remote country between Whadjuk Country in Perth and Bardi Jawi Country up on the Dampier Peninsula north of...

The Girls

The Girls     3 The arrival of the characters I first met Charlie and Nao in September 2018 in a writing exercise, after which they talked constantly in my head for months. All I needed to do in writing the first draft was get them talking on the page....

The Journey

The Journey     3 The evolution of the roadtrip I knew from the start I wanted a Thelma & Louise-style chase plot for Charlie and Nao but this was complicated by the fact they didn’t know each other at the beginning of the book. The two of them...
The Country

The Country

The Country     3 The significance of the setting The journey Nao and Charlie make in No Country for Girls spans over 2000 kilometres of mostly remote country between Perth and the Dampier Peninsula north of Broome. The setting moves from suburban...