Georgia Blain has published novels for adults and young adults, essays, short stories and a memoir. Her first novel was the bestselling Closed for Winter, which was made into a feature film. Her books have been short-listed for numerous awards including the NSW and SA Premier’s Literary Awards, and the Nita B. Kibble Award for her memoir Births, Deaths and Marriages. Georgia’s most recent works include The Secret Lives of Men, Too Close to Home, YA novel Darkwater and Between a Wolf and a Dog (Scribe). She lives in Sydney, where she works full-time as a writer.
Darkwater
A beautifully atmospheric mystery about family, politics and murder in an idyllic Sydney suburb.
Amanda Clarke is dead. Her body was found floating facedown by the riverbank, and no one knows what happened. As rumours fly and fear grows, it seems that everyone s uspects Lyndon, one of Amanda’s friends. He’s known for his temper, his cruelty and his criminal family – and now the police want to talk to him.
It’s the end of summer, 1973, the heat is enough to melt asphalt and a sleepy riverside suburb is losing some of its innocence. Fifteen-year-old Winter went to the same school and hung out in the same places as Amanda. As she finds herself alone in trying to defend Lyndon, Winter learns that you can never really know someone – and the answers she has been looking for are closer than she has ever wanted to believe.
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First published by Random House Australia in 2016
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Creator: Blain, Georgia, author.
Title: Special/Georgia Blain.
ISBN: 978 0 85798 808 9 (ebook)
Target audience: For young adults.
Subjects: Science fiction.
Dewey number: A823.3
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