TY - BOOK AU - Pierce,Nell TI - A place near Eden SN - 9781761066177 AV - PR8299.I467 P53 2022 U1 - A823.4 23/eng/202200516 PY - 2022/// CY - Crows Nest, NSW PB - Allen & Unwin KW - Brothers and sisters KW - fast KW - Families KW - Foster children KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Missing persons KW - Domestic fiction KW - Psychological fiction KW - Fiction KW - Australian fiction KW - Foster children - Fiction KW - Siblings KW - Australia KW - AUS fiction (Australia) KW - Suspense fiction KW - Australian stories KW - Adult fiction KW - Print KW - Detective and mystery fiction KW - lcgft KW - Thrillers (Fiction) N1 - "Who do you trust when you can't trust yourself?" -- Back cover N2 - "How can we know the truth of our own lives? This question troubles Matilda, as she looks back on her time with her foster brother, Sem. Matilda remembers long hours at the swimming pool. Celeste, a girl who lived downstairs with her artist mother. Sem disappearing for hours, then days. Her father yelling in the driveway. A car coming to take Sem away. Five years later, Matilda lives in Melbourne with her mother. Sem is now a memory she has locked away. Until, at a party, Matilda reconnects with Celeste and then Sem. Celeste and Matilda move out to the coast near Eden to house-sit. Sem follows, but as the long summer drags on, the atmosphere in the house becomes claustrophobic. When Sem starts disappearing again, Matilda finds herself on unsteady ground, haunted by their past. One morning, after a night at the pub, Matilda wakes up scratched and hungover, with no memory of the previous night. Sem is once again gone. This time, for good. Matilda becomes consumed by an obsession to know if she is responsible for Sem's disappearance. But the truth struggles to fit into a neat story." -- Back cover ER -