The Survivors: Book vs. Series

Netflix’s 2025 limited series The Survivors is adapted from Jane Harper’s 2020 novel. Both return Kieran Elliott to a Tasmanian coastal town where a new death revives an older tragedy.

PollBook or series, which was better?
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About the book and the series
Book
The Survivors cover
Author
Jane Harper
Year
2020
Pages
400Buy book
Audiobook length
11 hr 57 minGet audiobook
Narrator
Stephen Shanahan

Kieran Elliott returns with his young family to the Tasmanian coastal town where a storm killed his brother and another man while a teenage girl disappeared. When a woman’s body is found on the beach, the new investigation threatens to expose what the community has hidden since that earlier tragedy.

Series
The Survivors poster
Creator
Tony Ayres
Writer
Tony Ayres, Belinda Chayko
Year
2025
Episode
49 min
Seasons
1
Episodes
6
Network
Netflix
Cast
Yerin Ha, Miriama Smith, Charlie Vickers, Robyn Malcolm
Genre
Crime, Drama
IMDb
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Kieran Elliott returns with his partner and baby to Evelyn Bay, the Tasmanian town where two young men drowned and a teenage girl disappeared fifteen years earlier. When another young woman is found dead on the beach, the investigation reopens old grief and threatens the secrets holding the community together.

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