Bereft
Chris Womersley
#3874 of 8,085 books · #620 in Historical Fiction
Shortlisted for the Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year) (2012).
Australia, 1919. Quinn Walker returns from the Great War to the New South Wales town of Flint: the birthplace he fled ten years earlier when he was accused of a heinous act. Aware of the townsmen's vow to hang him, Quinn takes to the surrounding hills. Here, deciding upon his plan of action, and questioning just what he has returned for, he meets Sadie Fox. This mysterious girl seems to know, and share, his darkest fear. And, as their bond greatens, Quinn learns what he must do to lay the ghosts of his past, and Sadie's present, to rest.
- Publisher
- Hachette UK
- ISBN-13
- 9780857386564
- Topics
Awards
- Gold Dagger Award (CWA Dagger for Crime Novel of the Year)Shortlisted(2012)
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