Book prize judges have praised ‘ethical precision’ of Melburnian’s second novel, a poised unpacking of the horrors of institutional failure
,” she says. “The worst thing was almost how surprised people were. And then we just kind of forget about it, collectively. And it’s still going on.”
As an author, Down is content for people to simply find Bodies of Light to be a good story. “But if I was allowed to have one lofty ambition, it would be that people recognise that it’s a relatively faithful representation of some of what goes on,” she says. “That even though parts are set into the 70s and 80s, a lot of the problems of the system, systemic failures and episodes of abuse, they’re not historic. These institutional failings are still being perpetrated.
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