The Low Road (novel)

The Low Road is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.

The Low Road

First edition
Author	Chris Womersley
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Scribe Publications, Melbourne
Publication date	2007
Publication place	Australia
Media type	Print Paperback
Pages	280 pp
ISBN	978-1-921215-47-6 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC	174109815
Followed by	Bereft

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• Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted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" [1]
• "The Australian" [2]
• "Australian Crime Fiction Database" [3]
• "First Tuesday Book Club" [4]
• "Readings" [5]