Since its publication last year, Highway 13 has won the Story Prize for short fiction, the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Fiction, and the NSW Premier's Literary Awards' Christina Stead Prize for Fiction. 

Praise for Highway 13: 

‘Remarkable… an accomplished collection, stylish and lyrical in its prose and deeply sensitive in its characterisation.' The Guardian

'Highway 13 is vibrant and intricately crafted, from its taut sentences and pitch-perfect psychological observations to its very order of stories.' The Sydney Morning Herald

'Highway 13 is a thrilling collection that explores an uncanny restlessness haunting the Australian psyche.' The Conversation

'McFarlane is a master at just about everything: dialogue, setting, comic timing… but her biggest accomplishment is creating an empathic bond with people whose lives are touched by unexplainable violence. Compulsively suspenseful and enormously readable.' The Los Angeles Times

'In Fiona McFarlane's gifted hands, this Mobius strip of linked stories bends and twists the crime genre until it is barely recognisable… The result is a riveting study of human nature.' Geraldine Brooks, author of Horse