‘Stop telling people it’s weird’: Andrew Upton on his strange new novel, and having Cate Blanchett read it first
An allegory in the spirit of Animal Farm, the Australian playwright’s debut novel about a disfigured chicken is a fantastical fable that’s both funny and ‘a bit bleak’ Andrew Upton is full of…
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