TY - BOOK AU - Epstein,Sarah TI - Small spaces SN - 9781921977381 U1 - A823.4 23 PY - 2018/// CY - Newtown, NSW PB - Walker Books Australia KW - Selective mutism KW - Juvenile fiction KW - Psychic trauma KW - Secrecy KW - Teenage girls KW - Imaginary companions KW - Missing persons KW - Australian fiction KW - Young adult fiction KW - Thrillers (Fiction) KW - lcgft KW - Psychological fiction KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - 13+ years old N2 - "We don’t pick and choose what to be afraid of. Our fears pick us." Tash Carmody has been traumatised since childhood, when she witnessed her gruesome imaginary friend Sparrow lure young Mallory Fisher away from a carnival. At the time nobody believed Tash, and she has since come to accept that Sparrow wasn’t real. Now fifteen and mute, Mallory’s never spoken about the week she went missing. As disturbing memories resurface, Tash starts to see Sparrow again. And she realises Mallory is the key to unlocking the truth about a dark secret connecting them. Does Sparrow exist after all? Or is Tash more dangerous to others than she thinks? ER -