Prima Facie by Suzie Miller review – what does the hit play gain from being novelised?

On stage this story has won Tony and Olivier awards. But as a book set in the UK, it suffers from the extra padding – and it feels more heavy-handed, tooWhen it comes to sexual assault and the law, a lot has happened since Suzie Miller debuted her one-woman “rape play” (her words).Prima Facie, about a sexual assault defence-barrister-turned-complainant who tries to get justice for her own rape, opened at Sydney’s Griffin Theatre Company in 2019. Since then, in Australia a