Join author Emma Styles as she discusses her award-winning book ‘No Country for Girls’. No Country for Girls is a gritty, twisty road-trip thriller that follows two young women on the run across the harsh, unforgiving landscape of Australia.
Emma Styles writes contemporary West Australian crime about young women taking on the patriarchy. She lives in London but grew up in Perth on Whadjuk Country and gets back here as often as she can. She loves a road trip and once sat out a cyclone on the north west coast in a LandCruiser Troop Carrier.
No Country for Girls, is a gritty road trip thriller about two young women on the run in a dead man’s twin cab ute. A love letter to the West Australian outback, it won the 2020 Little, Brown Crime Fiction Award for an unpublished manuscript and featured in Val McDermid’s New Blood panel for outstanding debut authors at the 2022 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in the UK.
You can find Emma on Twitter @emstylesauthor, Instagram @emmastylesauthor, and learn more about her road trip influences at emmastylesauthor.com.
No Country for Girls
Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together forever.
A man is dead and now they are unwilling accomplices in his murder there’s only one thing to do: hit the road in the victim’s twin cab ute, with a bag of stolen gold stashed under the passenger seat.
Suddenly outlaws, Nao and Charlie must make their way across Australia’s remote outback using only their wits to survive. They’ll do whatever it takes to evade capture and escape with their lives…
Thelma & Louise for a new generation, No Country for Girls is a gritty, twisty road-trip thriller that follows two young women on the run across the harsh, unforgiving landscape of Australia.