To enter, just tell us your favourite book involving family drama?
Helen and John are too preoccupied with making a mess of their marriage to notice the quiet ways in which their daughters are suffering. Junie grows up brittle and defensive, Anna difficult and rebellious.
When fifteen-year-old Anna fails to come home one night, her mother's not too worried; Anna's taken off before but always returned. Helen waits three days to report her disappearance.
But this time Anna doesn't come back ...
A spellbinding novel in the tradition of Helen Garner, Charlotte Wood and Georgia Blain, Islands is a riveting and brilliant portrait of a family in crisis by the breathtakingly talented author of House of Sticks and Hope Farm.
"Peggy Frew shows her trademark flair for bringing complex domestic lives to the fore in her latest novel Islands. It is a work of great compassion and insight… Lovers of Australian writers such as Charlotte Wood and Josephine Rowe will find a lot in Frew's latest work." - Books+Publishing
"Islands is a beautifully written book concerned at its core with the complexity of family relationships, in particular that between mother and child. It is also about anger and blame, loyalty and selfishness and facing up to the consequences of your actions." - Financial Review
"This is a dark and understated beauty, a spellbinding novel that will knock you senseless. Told in sparse, meditative prose, Islands draws a tragic portrait of a family falling apart in the aftermath of a marriage. Islands is drenched with longing and despair but Frew divvies it out to the reader with tender elegance… I’m going to come back to this haunting, achingly good book again and again."
https://www.facebook.com/AllenandUnwinBooks/photos/a.99183951158/10157340393921159/Competition open to Aus/NZ residents only, entries close 10am AEST Monday 25 Feb, ten advance copies to give away across Facebook & Instagram with winners announced in the comments.
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