The house of now and then / Jo Dixon.
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TextPublisher: Sydney, NSW : HQ Fiction, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First Australian paperback editionDescription: 415 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781867250302 (paperback)Subject(s): Suspense fiction | Boys -- Fiction | Interpersonal relationships -- Fiction | Secrecy -- Fiction | Secrecy | Australian fiction | Families -- Fiction | Recluses -- Fiction | Triangles (Interpersonal relations) -- Fiction | Missing persons -- Fiction | Loneliness -- Fiction | Tasmania | Tasmania -- Fiction | AUS thriller / suspense fiction (Tasmania)Genre/Form: Suspense fiction -- Adult fiction -- Print | Suspense fiction -- Adult fiction -- Print | Thrillers (Fiction). | Fiction. | Thrillers (Fiction). | Australian fiction | Thrillers (Fiction) | Suspense fiction | Psychological fiction | Red hot reads DDC classification: A823.4 Summary: After a humiliating public scandal, Olivia is hiding from the press in a remote Tasmanian house when an unknown man knocks on her door, seeking Pippa, a woman who once lived there. His father, Jeremy, has died, leaving behind a letter for this mysterious woman. Olivia wants to help, but can she risk revealing her own sordid past? Thirty years earlier, bohemian wild-child Pippa and her best friend Jeremy spend a perfect summer in the house. Pippa falls deeply in love with local boy Leo, and they begin to plan a life of adventure together, much to the displeasure of his conservative and controlling family. One night Leo leaves the house to confront his parents... and is never seen again. As Olivia is drawn into solving the mystery, the unexpected and tragic story of Pippa, Jeremy and Leo is slowly uncovered. At the same time, a path to reclaiming her own life opens, if only she has the courage to take it.
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After a humiliating public scandal, Olivia is hiding from the press in a remote Tasmanian house when an unknown man knocks on her door, seeking Pippa, a woman who once lived there. His father, Jeremy, has died, leaving behind a letter for this mysterious woman. Olivia wants to help, but can she risk revealing her own sordid past? Thirty years earlier, bohemian wild-child Pippa and her best friend Jeremy spend a perfect summer in the house. Pippa falls deeply in love with local boy Leo, and they begin to plan a life of adventure together, much to the displeasure of his conservative and controlling family. One night Leo leaves the house to confront his parents... and is never seen again. As Olivia is drawn into solving the mystery, the unexpected and tragic story of Pippa, Jeremy and Leo is slowly uncovered. At the same time, a path to reclaiming her own life opens, if only she has the courage to take it.
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