Hitch by Kathryn Hind - ISBN: 9780143794349
Paperback
Outrunning trauma across Australia, one ride at a time.

Hitch

Winner of the Penguin Literary Prize

  • Paperback

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    4 June 2019

Summary

Winner of the 2020 Betty Trask Award, the inaugural Penguin Literary Prize and a Canberra Critics Circle Award.

Amelia stands beside a highway in the Australian desert, alone except for her dog and the occasional road train that speeds past her raised thumb. After her mother’s funeral, Amelia was confronted by Zach and reminded of the relationship they had when she was a teenager. She feels complicit and remains unable to process what happened. So she ran. Her best friend, Sid, is Zac…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780143794349
ISBN-10:0143794345
Author:Kathryn Hind
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Hamish Hamilton
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:4 June 2019
Weight:388g
Dimensions:232mm x 154mm x 25mm
About The Author

Kathryn Hind

Kathryn Hind was born in Canberra and has now returned there after living for five years in the UK. She’s published essays and short stories in various Australian journals and collections, and has had a poem published on one of Canberra’s Action buses. Kathryn began her first novel, Hitch, while studying in the UK, and in 2018 she was awarded the inaugural Penguin Literary Prize for the manuscript.

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