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'A heart-stopping novel of deception and delusion from an exciting new Australian author of domestic noir.
'When a body is found buried near the desolate forest road of Kellers Way, Detective Melanie Carter must identify the victim if she is to have any chance of finding the killer. That's no easy task with fragmentary evidence from a crime committed years earlier and a conspiracy of silence from anyone who might have information.
'The one person who may be able to help is Julie West. In a troubled marriage, Julie often jogs along Kellers Way to clear her mind and escape the confines of her suffocating suburban life. Until one day, something happens there that shakes Julie to the core, making her question everything she ever believed about her life, her marriage and even her sanity . . . ' (Publication summary)
Notes
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Dedication: 'For my sons, whose boundless enthusiasm for my whimsical bedtime stories encouraged me to venture into the world of imagination.'
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Epigraph: 'The truth is rarely pure and never simple.' - Oscar Wilde
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Other Formats
- Also large print.
- Dyslexic edition.
- Sound recording.
Works about this Work
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Home Fires and Flights of Fancy
2017
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 September 2017; (p. 22)'According to folklore, black cockatoos are harbingers of rain. In Harriet McKnight’s debut novel, Rain Birds, the clouds do eventually break open, in the wake of an unseasonably hot spell that exacerbated inflammatory situations in a regional Victorian town.' (Introduction)
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Home Fires and Flights of Fancy
2017
single work
review
essay
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 16 September 2017; (p. 22)'According to folklore, black cockatoos are harbingers of rain. In Harriet McKnight’s debut novel, Rain Birds, the clouds do eventually break open, in the wake of an unseasonably hot spell that exacerbated inflammatory situations in a regional Victorian town.' (Introduction)
Awards
- 2018 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Adult Crime Novel
- 2018 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2018 shortlisted Ned Kelly Awards for Crime Writing — Best First Novel
- 2018 shortlisted APA Book Design Awards — Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover