The lost girls /
James, Wendy,
The lost girls / Wendy James. - Melbourne, Victoria : Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. - 270 pages ; 23 cm.
"Everybody loved Angie. Then she was gone. But no secret is safe forever." --Cover.
Curl Curl, Sydney, January 1978. Angie's a looker. Or she's going to be. She's only fourteen, but already, heads turn wherever she goes. Male heads, mainly...Jane worships her older cousin Angie. She spends her summer vying for Angie's attention. Then Angie is murdered. Jane and her family are shattered. They withdraw into themselves, casting a veil of silence over Angie's death. Thirty years later, a journalist arrives with questions about the tragic event. Jane is relieved to finally talk about her adored cousin. And so is her family. But whose version of Angie's story - whose version of Angie herself - is the real one? And can past wrongs ever be made right? The shocking truth of Angie's last days will force Jane to question everything she once believed. Because nothing - not the past or even the present - is as she once imagined.
9781921901058
Australian fiction.
Cousins--Death--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Australian
Australian fiction
Suspense fiction
A823.4
The lost girls / Wendy James. - Melbourne, Victoria : Michael Joseph an imprint of Penguin Books, 2013. - 270 pages ; 23 cm.
"Everybody loved Angie. Then she was gone. But no secret is safe forever." --Cover.
Curl Curl, Sydney, January 1978. Angie's a looker. Or she's going to be. She's only fourteen, but already, heads turn wherever she goes. Male heads, mainly...Jane worships her older cousin Angie. She spends her summer vying for Angie's attention. Then Angie is murdered. Jane and her family are shattered. They withdraw into themselves, casting a veil of silence over Angie's death. Thirty years later, a journalist arrives with questions about the tragic event. Jane is relieved to finally talk about her adored cousin. And so is her family. But whose version of Angie's story - whose version of Angie herself - is the real one? And can past wrongs ever be made right? The shocking truth of Angie's last days will force Jane to question everything she once believed. Because nothing - not the past or even the present - is as she once imagined.
9781921901058
Australian fiction.
Cousins--Death--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Australian
Australian fiction
Suspense fiction
A823.4
