The Life to Come - this year's Miles Franklin winner - is a brilliant character study
- Written by Jen Webb, Director of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra
Author Michelle de Kretser: she is interested in the hollowness behind the lives of her characters. Courtesy Perpetual/Copyright Agency/Martin Ollman.
Michelle de Kretser’s The Life To Come, which has won the 2018 Miles Franklin Award, begins with an epigraph from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame:
CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM:...
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