World Radio

Finding himself trapped in the Yabba, John shacks up with Doc, who takes him on a nighttime kangaroo shoot. In this ABC book reading, he wakes with the horror of the previous night. Wake in Fright is an open-eyed nightmare about landing yourself in the ultimate geographical cul-de-sac – a place without exit. But underneath its compulsively readable surface lurks another, even darker story; a sort of 'bush existentialist' tale about the nature of self-entrapment, and the way in which we are often the architects of our own worst dreams.