TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jinks,Catherine
TI  - The attack
SN  - 9781922458117
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Melbourne, Victoria
PB  - Text Publishing
KW  - Islands
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Queensland
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Women teachers
KW  - Problem youth
KW  - Teenage boys
KW  - Small cities
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Custody of children
KW  - Australian
KW  - Thrillers (Fiction)
KW  - lcgft
N1  - "When the past comes to get you..." -- Cover
N2  - 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
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