TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pierce,Nell
TI  - A place near Eden
SN  - 9781761066177
U1  - A823.4 23/eng/202200516
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Crows Nest, NSW
PB  - Allen & Unwin
KW  - Foster children
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Brothers and sisters
KW  - Families
KW  - Interpersonal relations
KW  - Missing persons
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Detective and mystery fiction
KW  - Psychological 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
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