„Ich werde die Schule beenden. Ich werde keine Drogen nehmen. Ich werde mir keine Tattoos machen lassen. Ich werde keinen Alkohol trinken. Ich werde nicht ständig „Fuck“ sagen. Ich werde keinen Sex haben, bis ich achtzehn bin. Ich will nicht so werden wie alle anderen.“
At 16, Nate grapples with poverty and social exclusion, facing significant challenges in finding his voice and self-expression. The story explores his journey as he seeks to navigate these obstacles and discover a way to assert himself in a world that often overlooks him.
Seventeen-year-old Friday Brown is on the run—running to escape memories of her mother and of the family curse. And of a grandfather who’d like her to stay. She’s lost, alone and afraid. Silence, a street kid, finds Friday and she joins him in a gang led by beautiful, charismatic Arden. When Silence is involved in a crime, the gang escapes to a ghost town in the outback. In Murungal Creek, the town of never leaving, Friday must face the ghosts of her past. She will learn that sometimes you have to stay to finish what you started—and often, before you can find out who you are, you have to become someone you were never meant to be. Friday Brown is the breathtaking second novel from the author of the award-winning All I Ever Wanted. Vikki Wakefield is an astonishing talent.
What happens to a family when a child goes missing?After You Were Gone is an edge-of-your-seat thriller that poses the question: How far would you go to find your child?
Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. She's a prankster and a risk-taker, and she's not afraid of anything—except losing. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. That night she experiences something she can't explain. The funny girl isn't laughing anymore. She's haunted by voices and visions—but nobody believes a girl who cries wolf. As she’s drawn deeper into a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt, the thin veil between this world and the next begins to slip. She can no longer tell what's real or imagined—all she knows is the ghosts of Swanston, including that of her own mother, are restless. It seems one of them has granted her an extraordinary gift at a terrible price. Everything about her is changing—her body, her thoughts, even her actions seem to belong to a stranger. Grace is losing herself, and her friends don’t understand. Is she moving closer to the truth? Or is she heading for madness?
A compelling page-turner exposing the point at which small-town corruption and family abuse intersect with love, truth and justice.