What would you do if your loved one was murdered and you had the chance for retribution? To enact revenge on the murderer, legally and without repercussion? Would you do it? Could you?
This is the question at the centre of Georgia’s audacious, conceptual debut, What I Would Do to You. In a near-future Australia, the death penalty is back. But if the victim’s family wants the perpetrator to die, they must be the ones to carry out the execution.
Powerful and confronting, the novel is also beautiful. Georgia interweaves stories of the natural world and life on the land as well as love – for family, for animals, for strangers – so seamlessly into the narrative that, by its staggering conclusion, the reader looks up from the page to find their perspective of themselves and their world irrevocably changed.
Georgia will be in conversation with author Janet Lee. Janet holds a Doctorate in Creative Arts. Her work of historical fiction, The Killing of Louisa, was published in 2018.
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