Fiona McFarlane

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• Highway 13

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2025 · Shortlist

  Highway Thirteen

  Highway 13

  Fiona McFarlane · 46 when first published

  Short stories · Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:Linked stories follow ordinary people whose lives are touched, over decades and continents, by an Australian man's arrest in 1998 for murdering backpackers along a highway.

• The Night Guest

  Written in English

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  Miles Franklin 2014 · Shortlist

  The Night Guest

  The Night Guest

  Fiona McFarlane · 35 when first published

  Novel

  AIAI-generated summary:Ruth, an elderly widow living alone by the sea in New South Wales, wakes believing a tiger has been in her house; that day Frida, a formidable stranger who says she has come to care for her, arrives.