Kate Holden is an award-winning author of two highly praised memoirs, In My Skin and The Romantic, and a regular contributor to The Saturday Paper, The Monthly and The Age.
'An incredible writer.' -Books+Publishing 'This is essential reading by one of Australia's finest nonfiction writers.' -Readings 'In prose as rich as the landscape it describes, Holden's book digs down into history, and sets it within the broader story of modern Australia's relationship to the land ... Holden is an excellent writer and weaves different elements together beautifully, moving from the Turner-Turnbull story to its historical and philosophical context with intelligence and panache. Above all, The Winter Road is a rebuke to the classical liberalism at the heart of societies such as our own.' -The Australian 'Holden relates with empathy and intelligence a dramatic and complex story, which has deep links to the past and profound implications for the future ... The genius of the book, which, as a model of reconstructive journalism places Holden alongside Chloe Hooper and Anna Krien, lies in Holden's ability to apply her intense intellectuality to a topic that, in the most literal of senses, is so down to earth.' -The Saturday Paper 'Vividly written and meticulously researched' -Tasmanian Times