The nowhere child / Christian White.
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TextPublisher: South Melbourne, VIC : Affirm Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1Description: 371 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781925584523; 1925584526Subject(s): Novel -- English -- Australia -- 21st century -- Texts | Kentucky - Fiction | Melbourne (Vic.) - Fiction | Detective and mystery stories | Suspense fiction | Crime & mystery fiction | Family secrets | Photographers | Secrecy | Small cities | Missing children -- Investigation -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Women photographers -- Fiction | Family secrets - Fiction | Missing children - Investigation - Fiction | Photographers -- Fiction | Australian fiction | Photographers - Fiction | Small cities -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Investigation -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Victoria -- Melbourne | Kentucky | Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction | Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction | Kentucky -- Fiction | AustralianGenre/Form: Mystery fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction) | Australian fiction -- 21st century | Thriller fiction | Detective and mystery fiction | Thrillers (Fiction). | Thrillers (Fiction) | Thrillers (Fiction) | Thrillers (Fiction). | Suspense fiction. | Thriller fiction | Australian fiction -- 21st century | Australian fiction | Thrillers (Fiction). | Suspense fiction | Crime-Australia -- Adult fiction -- Print | Detective and mystery fiction | Thrillers (Fiction) | Thrillers (Fiction). | Australian fiction | Detective and mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction | Mystery fiction. | Mystery fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Australian fiction | Detective and mystery fiction. | Fiction. | Detective and mystery fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). DDC classification: A823.4 LOC classification: PR9619.4.W45Awards: Winner of Victoria Premier's Literary Awards.Summary: 'Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.' On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl. At first she brushes it off, but when Kim scratches the surface of her family history in Australia, questions arise that aren’t easily answered. To find the truth, she must travel to Sammy’s home of Manson, Kentucky, and into a dark past. As the mystery of Sammy’s disappearance unravels and the town’s secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards an electrifying climax.
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'Her name is Sammy Went. This photo was taken on her second birthday. Three days later she was gone.' On a break between teaching photography classes in Melbourne, Kim Leamy is approached by a stranger investigating the disappearance of a little girl from her Kentucky home twenty-eight years earlier. He believes Kim is that girl. At first she brushes it off, but when Kim scratches the surface of her family history in Australia, questions arise that aren’t easily answered. To find the truth, she must travel to Sammy’s home of Manson, Kentucky, and into a dark past. As the mystery of Sammy’s disappearance unravels and the town’s secrets are revealed, this superb novel builds towards an electrifying climax.
Tertiary/Undergraduate.
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Winner of Victoria Premier's Literary Awards.
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