The attack / Catherine Jinks.
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TextPublisher: Melbourne, Victoria : Text Publishing, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: 325 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781922458117Subject(s): Islands -- Queensland -- Fiction | Women teachers -- Fiction | Problem youth -- Fiction | Teenage boys -- Fiction | Small cities -- Fiction | Dysfunctional families -- Fiction | Custody of children -- Fiction | Queensland -- FictionGenre/Form: Thrillers (Fiction) | Australian fiction. DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a former leper colony off the coast of Queensland. Her current clients are a group of ex-military men who run a tough-love program for troubled teens. The latest crop looks like the usual mix of bad boys and sad boys. Then Robyn takes a second look at a kid called Darren. Last time she saw him his name was Aaron, and Robyn was his primary school teacher. And she was somehow at the centre of a vicious small-town custody battle involving his terrifying grandmother. Bruising classroom dynamics, manipulative parents and carers and horrendous small-town politics form the backdrop to a nail-biting thriller in which the tensions of ten years ago start to play themselves out, building to a violent climax in the present day. Robyn escaped the past once. Now it's back -- and this time there's no way out.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| wnor- Book | Northam Northam Adult fiction | F JIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31111083216505 |
"When the past comes to get you..." -- Cover.
Robyn Ayres works as the camp caretaker on Finch Island, a former leper colony off the coast of Queensland. Her current clients are a group of ex-military men who run a tough-love program for troubled teens. The latest crop looks like the usual mix of bad boys and sad boys. Then Robyn takes a second look at a kid called Darren. Last time she saw him his name was Aaron, and Robyn was his primary school teacher. And she was somehow at the centre of a vicious small-town custody battle involving his terrifying grandmother. Bruising classroom dynamics, manipulative parents and carers and horrendous small-town politics form the backdrop to a nail-biting thriller in which the tensions of ten years ago start to play themselves out, building to a violent climax in the present day. Robyn escaped the past once. Now it's back -- and this time there's no way out.
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