WINNER OF THE 2022 MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD

Shortlisted, Fiction, Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, 2022
Shortlisted, Stella Prize, 2022
Shortlisted, Fiction, The Age Book of the Year Award, 2022
Shortlisted, Barbara Jefferis Award, 2022
Shortlisted, Adult crime novels, Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, 2022

So by the grace of a photograph that had inexplicably gone viral, Tony had found me. Or: he’d found Maggie.I had no way of knowing whether he was nuts or not; whether he might go to the cops. Maybe that sounds paranoid, but I don’t think it’s so ridiculous. People have gone to prison for much lesser things than accusations of child-killing...

A quiet, small-town existence. An unexpected Facebook message, jolting her back to the past. A history she’s reluctant to revisit: dark memories and unspoken trauma, bruised thighs and warning knocks on bedroom walls, unfathomable loss.

She became a new person a long time ago. What happens when buried stories are dragged into the light?

This epic novel from the two-time Sydney Morning Herald Young Novelist of the Year is a masterwork of tragedy and heartbreak—the story of a life in full. Sublimely wrought in devastating detail, Bodies of Light confirms Jennifer Down as one of the writers defining her generation.