Bereft (novel)

Bereft

First edition
Author	Chris Womersley
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Scribe Publications, Melbourne
Publication date	2010
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print Paperback
Pages	264 pp
ISBN	9781921640605 (first edition, paperback)
Preceded by	The Low Road
Followed by	Cairo

Bereft is a 2010 novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.

In 1919 the First World War is over and Spanish Flu is at epidemic proportions in Australia. Quinn Walker returns from the war to the small town of Flint to face the consequences of his sister's killing, ageing parents and a police constable who is intent on blaming him for the death.

• 2012 longlisted International Dublin Literary Award
• 2012 shortlisted The National Year of Reading 2012 Our Story Collection — New South Wales
• 2012 shortlisted Crime Writers' Association (UK) — The CWA Gold Dagger
• 2011 winner Indie Awards — Fiction
• 2011 shortlisted Miles Franklin Literary Award

• Dedication: For Roslyn, who always believed.
• Epigraph: Every angel is terrible - Rainer Maria Rilke, The Duino Elegies

• Australian Crime Fiction^[1]
• Kill Your Darlings^[2]
• The Sydney Morning Herald^[3]

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