The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The highly anticipated Australian original series based on Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel is launching on Prime Video on 18 April 2025.

A masterpiece . . . The Narrow Road to the Deep North is an extraordinary piece of writing and a high point in an already distinguished career. - Michael Williams, The Guardian

Available on Prime Video from 18 April 2025 - Justin Kurtzel's highly anticipated series based on this Booker Prize-winning novel by Richard Flanagan; starring Jacob Elordi, Ciaran Hinds, Odessa Young, Olivia DeJonge and Simon Baker.

August, 1943. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma death railway, Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever.

This savagely beautiful novel is a story about the many forms of love and death, of war and truth, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

A big, magnificent novel of passion and horror and tragic irony. Its scope, its themes and its people all seem to grow richer and deeper in significance with the progress of the story, as it moves to its extraordinary resolution. It's by far the best new novel I've read in ages. - Patrick McGarth

Beyond comparison . . . an immense achievement . . . Wilfred Owen wrote of his Great War verse - "My subject is war, and the pity of war. The poetry is in the pity." Flanagan's triumph is to find poetry without any pity at all. - Geordie Williamson, Australian

A story of war and star-crossed lovers, the novel is also a profound meditation on life and time, memory and forgetting . . . a magnificent achievement. - Adelaide Advertiser