Dimensions
129 x 198 x 24mm
Set in Australia – a debut novel that explores a family's secrets and mysteries.
One hot January afternoon in Mawson, Australia, a young boy sets out to burgle his mother's room. Today, he thinks, he will open the special drawer, the locked drawer that must contain secrets. And it does. But sometimes we keep secrets for a reason. Sometimes a secret is there to hold those we love safe.
Twenty years on, an onlooker will see in Gerard Freeman the boy he once was; a little more timid and unworldly, perhaps, but essentially the same solitary, serious child. Gerard has not left Mawson – he works as a librarian at the university – but he now lives for only two things: his crippled penfriend Alice, who he has never met, but who he yearns for with all his heart, and the manuscript he found in that locked drawer. For within those pages were the first hints of the terrible story that haunted his mother and, ultimately, destroyed her.
