Bad Girls: Susanna Moore, Gil Adamson and Lisa Moore

Huck Finn got to light out, and in doing so invent his future. For boys who run away, the road is an adventure, for girls it is often a more perilous place. In contemporary literature, women on the run face unique hardships, many of which have to do with suffocating families, illicit sex, and establishing a sense of self.

Joan London's 'Gilgamesh and The Good Parents' give us young women making their way in men's worlds; whether in Europe on the eve of war or a hotel room in Brisbane, the consequences are equally shocking.

In 'Alligator', Lisa Moore's novel, two women struggle to make their way in the world: sassy Colleen is an eco-terrorist determined to escape small town Newfoundland, while her aunt tries to stay alive long enough to make a film.

In all of Susanna Moore's novels, women negotiate twilight worlds of sex and identity, be it a steamy Hawai'i in 'Sleeping Beauties', colonial India in 'One Last Look', or prison in 'The Big Girls'.

Join these three novelists in conversation with Ingrid Horrocks on why we call women "bad girls".

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