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PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME HERE is a Melbourne based Australian crime novel that goes beyond the confines of traditional crime fiction.
Author Tania Chandler has crafted a moving tale of two distinct plot threads which ultimately converge to form a singular, broad spanning plot that at once paints a startlingly different picture of lead character Bridget from what readers are introduced to in the first half of the novel while also providing context to the murder mystery that envelops her throughout t ...more
Author Tania Chandler has crafted a moving tale of two distinct plot threads which ultimately converge to form a singular, broad spanning plot that at once paints a startlingly different picture of lead character Bridget from what readers are introduced to in the first half of the novel while also providing context to the murder mystery that envelops her throughout t ...more
I received this book via first reads.
Wow! I have just finished this book and can honestly say it was amazing. I loved the authors unusual writing style and the story that unraveled was one that sucked me in and didn't want to let me go! ...more
Wow! I have just finished this book and can honestly say it was amazing. I loved the authors unusual writing style and the story that unraveled was one that sucked me in and didn't want to let me go! ...more
What a wonderful novel!
I loved the complexity of the psychologically damaged protagonist - her strange dreams and the effect her mother has had on her life.
This was an involving, intelligent book and as a debut novel all the more commendable.
Delighted to have received this book as a first reads winner.
I loved the complexity of the psychologically damaged protagonist - her strange dreams and the effect her mother has had on her life.
This was an involving, intelligent book and as a debut novel all the more commendable.
Delighted to have received this book as a first reads winner.
Jun 07, 2018
Scribe Publications
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A remarkable debut. Stylish, assured writing and a compelling, totally believable protagonist. Ms Chandler makes us believe in Brigitte even as we wonder whether to believe her.
Graeme Simsion, Author of The Rosie Project
[F]irst-time author Chandler proves chillingly good at powerlessness, despair, and the unreasonable batterings of fate.
Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser
[C]omplicated but intriguing … Chandler ensures twists and turns until then end.
Weekly Times
Graeme Simsion, Author of The Rosie Project
[F]irst-time author Chandler proves chillingly good at powerlessness, despair, and the unreasonable batterings of fate.
Katharine England, Adelaide Advertiser
[C]omplicated but intriguing … Chandler ensures twists and turns until then end.
Weekly Times
This story is told in two parts, the present, 2008, and the past, 1994, and takes place in Melbourne. We begin in the present, Brigitte is married to Sam, a detective with twins, a boy and a girl. Brigitte is a stay at home Mum,who writes part time for a parenting magazine. In 1994 Brigitte was involved in a car accident and has lost her memory and still suffers pain from her injuries. Sam investigated a murder close by and the case was never solved, and now it has been opened as a cold case. Br
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