Where We Begin

Where We Begin

2020 • 322 pages

Seventeen-year-old Anna is running into the night. Fleeing her boyfriend, her mother, and everything she has known. She is travelling into the country, to the land and the grandparents she has never met, looking for answers to questions that have never been asked. For every family has secrets. But some secrets - once laid bare - can never be forgiven. A dark, deeply compelling, coming-of-age YA novel from the author of As Stars Fall. HONOURS BOOK FOR CBCA BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR OLDER READERS 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE DAVITT AWARDS YOUNG ADULT 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE READINGS YA BOOK PRIZE 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARD FOR WRITING FOR YOUNG ADULTS 2021 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NSW PREMIER'S AWARD ETHEL TURNER PRIZE 2021


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