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'Winter in Sydney. The city is brimming with foreign students. Sophie Sandilands takes a job teaching at an English language school. When one of her students leaps to her death it becomes clear that lurking within the psyche of this community is a deep sense of despair and alienation. When it is revealed that the dead woman on the pavement has stolen another’s identity, Sophie is drawn into the mystery.
'Unable to resist the investigative instincts that run in her blood, Sophie finds herself unravelling a sinister operation that is trawling the foreign student market for its victims. But as Sophie works on tracking down the criminals it becomes evident that someone has knowledge of her and the disappearances in her own past. Will Sophie solve the mystery before she too becomes a ghost?
'Ghost Girls richly evokes the sights, smells, tastes and sounds of Sydney’s Chinatown, and imagines dark exploitative demands behind closed suburban doors.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Works about this Work
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Well Read : Debut Crime Writers Crack the Case
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 May 2016; (p. 36)
— Review of The Dry 2016 single work novel ; Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel -
Book Review – Ghost Girls by Cath Ferla
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2016;
— Review of Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel -
Cath Ferla Ghost Girls
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2016;
— Review of Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel 'Steeped in the smells and sounds of Sydney’s Chinatown, weighted by the sinister atmosphere of a private world of terrible crimes, Ghost Girls is a remarkable debut novel.' -
Back on Campus for a Course in Atmospherics
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 29) The Saturday Age , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 20)
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel ; Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel
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Back on Campus for a Course in Atmospherics
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 29) The Saturday Age , 2-3 April 2016; (p. 20)
— Review of All These Perfect Strangers 2016 single work novel ; Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel -
Cath Ferla Ghost Girls
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Newtown Review of Books , March 2016;
— Review of Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel 'Steeped in the smells and sounds of Sydney’s Chinatown, weighted by the sinister atmosphere of a private world of terrible crimes, Ghost Girls is a remarkable debut novel.' -
Book Review – Ghost Girls by Cath Ferla
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: Booklover Book Reviews 2016;
— Review of Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel -
Well Read : Debut Crime Writers Crack the Case
2016
single work
review
— Appears in: The Advertiser , 28 May 2016; (p. 36)
— Review of The Dry 2016 single work novel ; Ghost Girls 2016 single work novel
Awards
- 2017 winner Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2017 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- Sydney, New South Wales,