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Jane Harper is the author of bestsellers The Dry, Force of Nature, The Lost Man, The Survivors, and Exiles. Her books are published in 40 territories worldwide, with more than 3.5 million copies sold to date. Jane has won numerous awards for their writing, including the CWA Gold Dagger Award for Best Crime Novel, the British Book Awards Crime and Thriller Book of the Year, the Australian Book Industry Awards Book of the Year, and the Australian Indie Awards Book of the Year.

The major motion picture adaptation of The Dry, starring Eric Bana as Aaron Falk, took more than $20.5m at the Australian box office ahead of release dates overseas. Jane's fifth novel, Exiles, debuted at No.1 on Australia's bestseller charts on its release last September. It will be out in all English-speaking territories in the next two months.

The film adaptation of Force of Nature is in the final stages of production after being filmed in regional Victoria over winter. Bana is joined by Anna Torv (Mindhunter) as Alice Russell, Deborra-lee Furness (Jindabyne) as Jill Bailey, Robin McLeavy (Homeland) as Lauren, Sisi Stringer (Mortal Kombat) as Beth, Lucy Ansell (Utopia) as Bree and Jacqueline McKenzie (Romper Stomper) as Agent Carmen Cooper.

Jane was born in Manchester in the UK and moved to Australia with her family at age eight. She spent six years in Boronia, Victoria, and during that time, gained Australian citizenship. Returning to the UK with her family as a teenager, she lived in Hampshire before studying English and History at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

On graduating, she completed a journalism entry qualification and got her first reporting job as a trainee for the Darlington & Stockton Times in County Durham. Jane worked for several years as a senior news journalist for the Hull Daily Mail before moving back to Australia in 2008.

She worked first on the Geelong Advertiser and, in 2011, took up a business reporting role in Melbourne. In 2014, Jane submitted a short story that was one of 12 chosen for the Big Issue's annual Fiction Edition. That inspired her to pursue creative writing more seriously, breaking through with The Dry at the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards in 2015. Jane lives in bayside Melbourne with her husband and their two children.

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Force of Nature

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