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No Country for Girls

By: Emma Styles
Narrated by: Abbie-lee Lewis, Jodie Harris
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Gold. Theft. Murder.

A road trip to die for.

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 and 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.

2023, The Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Winner

2023, CWA Daggers: John Creasey (New Blood), Short-listed

©2022 Emma Styles (P)2022 Hachette Audio UK Crime Thrillers Suspense Thriller & Suspense Crime Thriller Fiction Murder

Critic Reviews

Bold and badass, No Country For Girls is the kind of searingly stylish, unrelenting page-turner I just adore. I burned through the twisting plot almost as fast as Charlie and Nao light up the Australian outback' (CHRIS WHITAKER, author of WE BEGIN AT THE END)
A thrilling cat-and-mouse pursuit through West Australia's Badlands . . . It left me breathless (ALEX MARWOOD, author of THE WICKED GIRLS)
Fresh as hell with two strikingly original protagonists who blaze a thrilling trail through the outback. Not just a terrific debut, a terrific book full stop (TREVOR WOOD, author of THE MAN ON THE STREET)
Razor-sharp wit meets pumping action, with twists and turns to keep the pages turning! No Country for Girls is the road trip for our time; relevant, powerful and unrelentingly entertaining . . . Welcome Emma Styles. We didn't know how much we needed you until you came (FEMI KAYODE, author of LIGHTSEEKERS)
A taut, evocative and utterly absorbing road-trip thriller about two young women on the run for their lives, both caught up in a landscape as full of threat and danger as the people who are after them. Unputdownable (JACOB ROSS, author of BLACK RAIN FALLING)
A unique voice, compelling protagonists, and a dizzyingly wild and gripping ride that grabs you by the throat - this is outback Australia like you've never seen it and you will not soon forget it (PETER PAPATHANASIOU, author of THE STONING)
I LOVED THIS BOOK. Thelma & Louise meets The Tourist in this pacey, surprising and relentlessly tense Aussie road trip thriller. With No Country for Girls Emma Styles is not playing around - she's staking her claim as the new queen of Outback Noir (LIZZIE POOK, author of MOONLIGHT AND THE PEARLER'S DAUGHTER)
An edge-of-your-seat, high-octane, thrilling road trip across the Oz Outback, in the company of three unforgettable women (LOUISE MORRISH, author of OPERATION MOONLIGHT)
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a cracking story that unfolds in many ways that I didn't expect. powerful and believable character development and a rich sense of the West Australian countryside make this one of the best reads I've had in years.

Tripping yarn!

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Kudos to author and narrators. I binged this book.
Evocatively written with some tense moments which had me unable to turn it off. The narration was perfect!! Bring on the next book please

A gripping story

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I really enjoyed this novel. I was completely sucked into & couldn’t stop listening! I loved the 2 main characters Charli & Nao

Gripping Aussie thriller

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