The Low Road is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.
Awards
Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 2008: winner
Notes
Dedication: "For my mother, my brother and my sister, who know something of the roads I have travelled." Epigraph: "A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus, On the Universe. Epigraph: "And what the dead had no speech for, when living They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." - T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding.
Reviews
"The Age" "The Australian" "Australian Crime Fiction Database" "First Tuesday Book Club" "Readings"