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After You Were Gone
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
,
2022
24806992
2022
single work
novel
crime
'What happens to a family when a child goes missing? How far would you go to learn the truth?
'In a busy street market, Abbie lets go of six-year-old Sarah’s hand. She isn’t a bad mother, just exhausted. When she turns around, her daughter isn’t there. After a full-scale search and a high-profile investigation, there is still no trace of Sarah.
'Six years later, Abbie is in love and getting married. Her family, despite their problems, have seen her through her worst imaginings—only Abbie’s mother seems unwilling to let her move on. Her fragile peace is constantly threatened: not knowing what happened to Sarah is like living with a curse.
'Then a phone call from an unknown number offers closure. A man claims to know what happened to Sarah, but if Abbie tells anyone or fails to follow instructions, she’ll never find out. What price must Abbie pay to know the truth?'(Publication summary)
- 2023 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
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This is How We Change the Ending
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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2019
16863784
2019
single work
novel
young adult
'I have questions I’ve never asked. Worries I’ve never shared. Thoughts that circle and collide and die screaming because they never make it outside my head. Stuff like that, if you let it go—it’s a survival risk.
'Sixteen-year-old Nate McKee is doing his best to be invisible. He’s worried about a lot of things—how his dad treats Nance and his twin half-brothers; the hydro crop in his bedroom; his reckless friend, Merrick.
'Nate hangs out at the local youth centre and fills his notebooks with things he can’t say. But when some of his pages are stolen, and his words are graffitied at the centre, Nate realises he has allies. He might be able to make a difference, change his life, and claim his future. Or can he?
'This is How We Change the Ending is raw and real, funny and heartbreaking—a story about what it takes to fight back when you’re not a hero.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2022 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Young Adult Fiction
- 2022 IBBY Honour Diploma — Writing
- 2020 shortlisted Prime Minister's Literary Awards — Young Adults' Fiction
- 2020 shortlisted Queensland Literary Awards — Griffith University Young Adult Book Award
- 2020 winner CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 2020 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2020 longlisted Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) — Australian Book of the Year for Older Children
- 2020 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers
- 2020 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Young Adult Book designed by Imogen Stubbs.
- 2020 longlisted The Stella Prize
- 2020 longlisted Indie Awards — Young Adult
- 2020 shortlisted Victorian Premier's Literary Awards — Prize for Writing for Young Adults
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Ballad for a Mad Girl
Melbourne
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Text Publishing
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2017
10605233
2017
single work
novel
young adult
fantasy
horror
'Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. She’s a prankster and a risk-taker, and she’s not afraid of anything—except losing. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. That night she experiences something she can’t explain. The funny girl isn’t laughing anymore. She’s haunted by voices and visions—but nobody believes a girl who cries wolf.
As she’s drawn deeper into a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt, the thin veil between this world and the next begins to slip. She can no longer tell what’s real or imagined—all she knows is the ghosts of Swanston, including that of her own mother, are restless. It seems one of them has granted her an extraordinary gift at a terrible price. Everything about her is changing—her body, her thoughts, even her actions seem to belong to a stranger. Grace is losing herself, and her friends don’t understand. Is she moving closer to the truth? Or is she heading for madness?' (Publication summary)
- 2018 shortlisted Festival Awards for Literature (SA) Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature South Australian Literary Awards — Young Adult Fiction
- 2018 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2018 winner Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
- 2018 shortlisted CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Book of the Year: Older Readers
- 2018 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards — Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature
- 2018 longlisted Inky Awards — Gold Inky
- 2018 CBCA Book of the Year Awards — Notable Book — Older Readers