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The Good Daughter

Honey Brown

Why we're reading this: Rebecca Toyer and Zach Kincaid eachlive on the outskirts of town, but come from very different sides of t…more
[close] Rebecca Toyer and Zach Kincaid eachlive on the outskirts of town, but come from very different sides of the tracks. When Zach's wealthy mother goes missing, Rebecca – the truckie's daughter – is implicated in her disappearance.

In the weeks that follow, Rebecca and Zach are drawn into a treacherous, adult world. Eager to please, Rebecca finds herself in danger of living up to the schoolyard taunts she so hates, while Zach channels his feelings through the sights of his gun.

In the fading summer light, grudges are nursed and tempers fray, and as old lies unravel it seems nobody can be relied on. But beyond the fallout, the hard lessons in love and betrayal have not been wasted. Rebecca and Zach realise that judgements can be flawed – and that trust is better earnt than given.

Original, unsettling and compelling, The Good Daughter is the much-anticipated second novel from Honey Brown

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Jun 23, 2014 Brenda rated it really liked it

Shelves: aussie-authors, young-adult, borrowed-from-library, thriller

Zach Kincaid was a typical moody teenager; but it went deeper for him – his wealthy family owned the majority of the land and part of the town of Kiona in rural Victoria. Rebecca Toyer at sixteen was the step-daughter of a truck driver; her mother had died from cancer and living out of town in a rental owned by the Kincaid’s meant the security was never there. Rebecca was a loner – teased, taunted and bullied continually at school – when her Dad left on one of his two week long road trips she as ...more

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Sep 16, 2010 Mish rated it it was ok

Shelves: australian-authors

Very disappointing. Story line was a bit flat

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Aug 15, 2010 Paul rated it liked it

Shelves: 2010, fiction, australian

Honey (H.M.) Brown's sophrmore release is a good book, not too different to her debut Red Queen. Bleak landscape, a girl the center of two boys world (for a time anyway). Good not great. ...more

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Aug 11, 2010 Michelle rated it liked it

This book took me forever to finish. It's an okay story, but not one of those books I want to carry with me everywhere I go and devour whenever I get a spare 5 minutes. Honey Brown's first book, Red Queen, sounds much more compelling.

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Apr 18, 2019 Karen rated it liked it

Mixed feelings about this book, but I did enjoy it over all. Rebecca is a tough young woman growing up in a small country town. Her mother has died and she lives with her step father, an interstate truck driver who often leaves her on her own. She grows up very quickly as she discovers boys, and gets caught up in other family’s dramas.

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