Voices in the dark / Fleur McDonald.
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TextPublisher: Crows Nest, NSW : Allen & Unwin, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: vii, 356 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781761066481; 176106648XSubject(s): Grandparents -- Death -- Fiction | Family farms -- Fiction | Traffic accidents -- Fiction | Homecoming -- Fiction | Estranged families -- Fiction | Interpersonal conflict -- Fiction | Family secrets -- Fiction | Family farms -- South Australia -- Fiction | Country life -- South Australia -- Fiction | Grandmothers -- Death -- Fiction | South Australia -- FictionGenre/Form: Australian fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: When Sassi Stapleton receives a middle-of-the-night phone call to tell her that her beloved grandmother is unwell, she quickly puts her job on hold, packs her ute and sets off on the long drive home, knowing her grandfather will need her. Less than an hour away from Sassi's hometown, Barker, she swerves to miss a roo and her car rolls down an embankment. By the time Sassi is found, her grandmother has already passed away. On the other side of the world, Sassi's estranged mother, Amber, receives a similar call and shocks the whole family when she flies home from South Africa. With everyone under the same roof, tensions escalate as Amber's secrecy and odd behaviour become unsettling. What is she really doing at home with a father she's barely spoken to since she left years ago? And will Amber and Sassi ever be able to reconnect?
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"When Sassi Stapleton returns to her family's farm, secrets that will change her future forever are laid bare"--Cover.
When Sassi Stapleton receives a middle-of-the-night phone call to tell her that her beloved grandmother is unwell, she quickly puts her job on hold, packs her ute and sets off on the long drive home, knowing her grandfather will need her. Less than an hour away from Sassi's hometown, Barker, she swerves to miss a roo and her car rolls down an embankment. By the time Sassi is found, her grandmother has already passed away. On the other side of the world, Sassi's estranged mother, Amber, receives a similar call and shocks the whole family when she flies home from South Africa. With everyone under the same roof, tensions escalate as Amber's secrecy and odd behaviour become unsettling. What is she really doing at home with a father she's barely spoken to since she left years ago? And will Amber and Sassi ever be able to reconnect?
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