The Low Road

First edition
Author	Chris Womersley
Country	Australia
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	Scribe Publications, Melbourne
Publication date	2007
Media type	Print Paperback
Pages	280 pp
ISBN	978-1-921215-47-6 (first edition, paperback)
OCLC	174109815
Followed by	Bereft

The Low Road is a 2007 Ned Kelly Award-winning novel by the Australian author Chris Womersley.

Awards

• Victorian Premier's Literary Award, Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript by an Emerging Victorian Writer, 2006: shortlisted
• Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing, Best First Novel, 2008: winner

Notes

• Dedication: "For my mother, my brother and my sister, who know something of the roads I have travelled."
• Epigraph: "A man's character is his fate." - Heraclitus, On the Universe.
• Epigraph:

"And what the dead had no speech for, when living

They can tell you, being dead: the communication

Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living." - T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding.

Reviews

• "The Age"
• "The Australian"
• "Australian Crime Fiction Database"
• "First Tuesday Book Club"
• "Readings"