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It became an Australian bestseller, and is often credited with launching the short-lived Grunge Lit or Dirty realism movement – terminology that McGahan himself (along with most of the writers to whom it was applied) rejected.
Although heralded as part of the first wave of the Australian Grunge Lit movement, Liadhen is in fact a dreamlike and non-realistic story set in a fictional town in the Australian Alps, and incorporating few of the traits of urban-based dirty realism that characterised that movement.