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Fiction

Something in the air

A haunted puzzle of a novel
by Amy Baillieu
September 2021, no. 435

The Airways by Jennifer Mills

Picador, $32.99 pb, 370 pp

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There is something, or rather someone, in the air in Jennifer Mills’s dark fourth novel. The Airways represents another leap towards the uncanny for Mills, whose previous book, the Miles Franklin-shortlisted Dyschronia (2018), was already a departure from the more traditionally realist modes of her earlier novels, The Diamond Anchor (2009) and Gone (2011), and short story collection, The Rest Is Weight (2012).

 


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The Airways by Jennifer Mills

Picador, $32.99 pb, 370 pp

ABR receives a commission on items purchased through this link. All ABR reviews are fully independent.


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