When Lou sees an ad for a long-abandoned m ining town up for sale\, it doesn&rsquo\;t take her long to convince her s ister and their oldest friends to go in on the idyllic property buried in the bush &ndash\; a place where the four families can hide away on weekend s\, get back to nature and unstick the kids from their screens.
\nBu t things start to go wrong before they even arrive for their first camping trip &ndash\; a rogue deer sends a trailer off the road\, a neighbour com plains about the fence line and squatters have set up camp down by the riv er. Soon none of that will matter\, though\, because by the end of the fir st night someone will be dead.
\nAt first it seems that hiding a bod y is easier than keeping other sorts of secrets: a lost job\, an illegal c rop\, an outrageous affair\, a little embezzlement. But what&rsquo\;s buri ed has a way of coming to the surface\, and even in the bush\, it&rsquo\;s hard to remain unseen.
\nAbout the author:
\nKate Mildenhall \;is an author\, writing teacher and podcaster. Her d ebut novel \;Skylarking \;was longlisted for Debut Fictio n in the 2017 Indie Book Awards and the 2017 Voss Literary Prize. Her seco nd novel\, \;The Mother Fault\, was longlisted for the 2021 A BIA General Fiction Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2021 Aurealis Science Fiction Novel of the Year. \;The Hummingbird Effect was \;shortlisted for the 2024 ABIA Literary Fiction Book of the Year and longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize and the 2024 Indie Book Awards fo r Fiction. \;
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