![]() ![]() ![]() The Dry is now the 15th highest-grossing Australian movie ever another adaptation is in the pipeline for Harper’s second Falk novel, Force of Nature, which will also star Bana. ![]() The Dry also became a hit film in 2020, starring Eric Bana as Falk. ![]() Thanks in large part to the Dry, Harper has sold 1.5m books in Australia and 3.5m worldwide. The rest is history.Įvery book has an uncertain outcome – but every now and then, due to a strange alchemy that publishers wish they could bottle, a megahit emerges. Harper wrote her debut novel around her day job as a journalist at Australian newspaper the Herald Sun and submitted it for consideration to the Victorian Premier’s Literary award for best unpublished manuscript. I wrote this book and then suddenly everything changed.” “The lives are really different – there wasn’t even really a gentle transition, it was really clearly defined. It was like night and day – my life before The Dry and after The Dry,” Harper says now. Sign up for the fun stuff with our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning He begins investigating the deaths but finds he’s not always welcome. When his childhood friend turns a gun on his wife, child, then himself, Falk returns to his hometown for the funeral. We first met Falk in The Dry, Harper’s blockbuster breakout set in a small town struggling with drought. Harper’s latest novel, Exiles, is her fifth book and the third in her series following the federal investigator Aaron Falk. ![]()
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