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The attack /

Jinks, Catherine,

The attack / Catherine Jinks. - Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2021. - 325 pages ; 24 cm.

"When the past comes to get you..." -- Cover.

Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a former leper colony off the coast of Queensland. Her current clients are a group of ex-military men who run a tough-love program for troubled teens. The latest crop looks like the usual mix of bad boys and sad boys. Then Robyn takes a second look at a kid called Darren. Last time she saw him his name was Aaron, and Robyn was his primary school teacher. And she was somehow at the centre of a vicious small-town custody battle involving his terrifying grandmother. Bruising classroom dynamics, manipulative parents and carers and horrendous small-town politics form the backdrop to a nail-biting thriller in which the tensions of ten years ago start to play themselves out, building to a violent climax in the present day. Robyn escaped the past once. Now it's back-and this time there's no way out.

9781922458117


Islands--Queensland.--Fiction
Australian fiction.
Women teachers--Fiction.
Problem youth--Fiction.
Teenage boys--Fiction.
Small cities--Fiction.
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Custody of children--Fiction.
Islands--Queensland--Fiction.


Queensland--Fiction.

Australian


Thrillers (Fiction).

A823.4
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