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'Lenny Marks is good at not remembering.
She has spent the last twenty years not thinking about the day her mother left her when she was still a child. Her stepfather’s parting words, however, remain annoyingly unforgettable: 'You did this.'ow thirty-seven, Lenny prefers contentment and order over the unreliability of happiness and the messiness of relationships. She fills her days teaching at the local primary school, and her nights playing Scrabble with her pretend housemate, watching reruns of Friends and rearranging her thirty-six copies of The Hobbit.
'Recently though, if only to appease her beloved foster-mum, Lenny has set herself the goal of ‘getting a life’.
'Then, out of the blue, a letter arrives from the Adult Parole Board. And when her desperate attempts to ignore it fail, Lenny starts to unravel.' (Publication summary)
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- Braille.
- Dyslexic edition.
- Large print.
Awards
- 2024 shortlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — The Matt Richell Award for New Writer
- 2024 shortlisted Indie Awards — Debut Fiction
- 2023 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel