Ghost Child
The past is always close behind.
Available Formats
-
Ghost Child Paperback ISBN: 9781864711097 Published: 01/10/2010 Imprint: Bantam Australia Extent: 384 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP
-
Ghost Child Trade Paperback ISBN: 9781863256803 Published: 01/10/2009 Imprint: Bantam Australia Extent: 384 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $32.95 RRP Buy Now
-
Ghost Child EBook ISBN: 9781864714562 Published: 01/05/2010 Imprint: RHA eBooks Adult Extent: 384 pages Subject: Contemporary Fiction $19.95 RRP Buy Now
Synopsis
In 1982 Victorian police were called to a home on a housing estate an hour west of Melbourne. There, they found a five-year-old boy lying on the carpet. There were no obvious signs of trauma, but the child, Jacob, died the next day. The story made the headlines and hundreds attended the funeral. Few people were surprised when the boy's mother and her boyfriend went to prison for the crime. Police declared themselves satisfied with the result, saying there was no doubt that justice had been done. And yet, for years rumours swept the estate and clung like cobwebs to the long-vacant house: there had been a cover-up. The real perpetrator, at least according to local gossip, was the boy's six-year-old sister, Lauren... Twenty years on, Lauren has created a new life for herself, but details of Jacob's death being to resurface and the story again makes the newspapers. As Lauren struggles with the ghosts of her childhood, it seems only a matter of time before the past catches up with her.
Useful Links
News & Blog
More News & Blog
EVERY single time you read a story in the newspaper about a child murder, you can be sure that the journalists know a great deal more than they are telling you. Most reporters feel sick about it. They want to tell the truth, the whole truth, but there are new laws that make it impossible in almost every circumstance to show the faces of young children who have been killed, or even to use their...
I suppose readers know I've got a book out at the moment. It's called I Came to Say Goodbye. It's essentially a long and passionate letter from an ordinary Australian bloke, Med, to a judge. He is trying to convince the judge not to make one of his grandchildren a ward of the State. It isn't easy. His family has been torn apart by mental illness. There is a catastrophic crime at the heart...
Video
Your Reviews
Caroline Overington Books
More
Matilda is Missing
by Caroline OveringtonIn the struggle between warring parents, who will protect the child?
Others Also Viewed
- Matilda is Missing
by Caroline OveringtonIn the struggle between warring parents, who will protect the child?
The English Patient
by Michael OndaatjeMichael Ondaatje lyrically portrays the convergence of four damaged lives in a bomb-riddled...
Cold Light
by Frank MoorhouseShortlisted for the Miles Franklin Award and the Barbara Jefferiss Prize.
k.schwab5 stars
19 October 2011 at 7:38pm
Reportthis was her first and for me, still her best. holds the attention from the first page. sad but good. what a talent.