Darkness on the edge of town
By: Jessie Cole
Publisher: Fourth Estate
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Sydney, N.S.W
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780732293192
Subjects: Life change events; Fiction; Fathers and daughters
Description: Vincent is nearly forty years old, with little to show for his life except his precious sixteen-year-old daughter, Gemma: sensitive, insightful and wise beyond her years. When a stranger crashes her car outside Vincent and Gemma's bush home, their lives take a dramatic turn. In an effort to help the stranded woman, father and daughter are drawn into a world of unexpected and life-changing consequences. Darkness on the Edge of Town is a haunting tale that beguiles the reader with its deceptively simple prose, its gripping and unrelenting tensions, and its disturbing yet tender observations.
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