The Temperature

‘As thematically rich as it is stylistically assured … a novel so engaging it demands to be read, not just as a commentary on our current moment, but as an exploration of what it means to be human in a world that is rapidly and perhaps irreversibly, changing.’ – Nina Culley, Artshub‘Gibson is back with her first novel … it’s every bit as exhilarating as her debut. It follows six characters through secrets and disaster, threading their stories together with grace and style and impeccable storytelling instincts.’ – Michael Williams, editor of The Monthly‘One of the strongest Australian novels from an emerging writer that I’ve read this year, or any year.’ – Alison Huber, head book buyer for Readings‘Such a special book … profoundly moving.’ – Fiona Stager, co-owner of Avid Reader bookstore‘Gibson is a masterful storyteller. These characters became kin, their humanity palpable and familiar. I am obsessed.’ – Ella Baxter, author of New Animal ‘A smart, tender and sometimes deliciously vicious study of six very different people trying to find their way through broken times.’ – Kate Mildenhall, author of The Hummingbird Effect‘An exquisite, complex and timely novel … With sharp awareness and a wry playfulness, The Temperature explores the questions, connections and devastating truths of the times we find ourselves in.’ – Else Fitzgerald, author of Everything Feels Like the End of the World

Katerina Gibson was born in 1994. She is a writer and a bookseller living in Naarm.

Her stories have appeared in Granta, Overland, The Lifted Brow, Island Online, Going Down Swinging, the Meanjin blog, and Kill Your Darlings’ New Australian Fiction 2020 anthology. Her short story ‘Fertile Soil’ was the Pacific regional winner of the 2021 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

Katerina is a 2021 Felix Meyer Scholar and a Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist 2023. Her short story collection Women I Know won the Christina Stead Prize for Fiction in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2023.

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