Katherine Johnson’s Every Wild Soul

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Katherine Johnson is the author of five novels including Matryoshka and Paris Savages. Katherine’s latest Every Wild Soul is the inaugural winner of The Australian Fiction Prize and Katherine is joining us to discuss today.

To the world Maria Island is a paradise; an ecological wonderland off the coast of Tasmania. At eighteen years old Maria is all she’s known for so much of her life. She loves the beauty and the chance to learn about biodiversity, but she’s also conscious her life doesn’t look like other girls and that maybe she’d like to change that.

Min’s father Piers has other ideas though. Ever since his wife left him he’s been determined to protect his daughter. Protection can look a lot like control though, so when a storm blows over Maria it promises more than a few ill winds for the residents.

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